Volume 16, Number 11—November 2010
Dispatch
Enterovirus 71 Infection with Central Nervous System Involvement, South Korea
Table 2
Enterovirus 71 outbreaks, Asia*
| Reference | Outbreak location, year | HFMD |
Complicated HFMD |
Genotypes detected | GenBank accession nos. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. patients | No. patients with EV71 | No. patients | No. patients with EV71 | |||||
| Zhang et al. (10) | Fuyang, PRC, 2008 | 151 | 59 | 112 | 42 | C4a | EU703812–14, GQ121417–41 | |
| Zhang et al. (11) | Shandong, PRC, 2007 | 105 | 55 | 11 | 6 | C4a | EU753365–417 | |
| AbuBakar et al. (1) | Brunei, 2006 | >100 | 34 | NA | NA | B4, B5 | FM201328–61 | |
| Ooi et al. (12) | Sarawak, Malaysia, 2000–2004 | 773 | 277 | 102 | 56 | B4, C1, B5 | AY905549–50, AY794036, AF376069 | |
| Lin et al. (13) | Taiwan, 1998 | NA | NA | 405 | 78 | C2 | AY055194–97, FJ357343 | |
| This study | South Korea, 2009 | 519 | 168 | 112 | 92 | C4a, C1, C5 | HM443164–644 | |
*HFMD, hand-foot-and-mouth disease; EV71, enterovirus 71; PRC, People’s Republic of China; NA, not available.
