Volume 18, Number 12—December 2012
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Enterovirus 71–associated Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease, Southern Vietnam, 2011
Truong Huu Khanh, Saraswathy Sabanathan, Tran Tan Thanh, Le Phan Kim Thoa, Tang Chi Thuong, Vu thi Ty Hang, Jeremy Farrar, Tran Tinh Hien, Nguyen van Vinh Chau, and H. Rogier van Doorn
Table 1
Hand, foot, and mouth disease grades at admission and grades to which disease progressed during hospitalization for 3,791 children, Children’s Hospital 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, September 18–November 30, 2011
| Grade at admission | Grade to which illness progressed, no. (%) cases |
Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2a | 2b | 3 | 4 | ||
| 1 | 640 (98.9) | 0 | 6 (0.9) | 1 (0.2) | 0 | 647 |
| 2a | 2,629 (95.6) | 94 (3.4) | 25 (0.9) | 2 (0.1) | 2,750 | |
| 2b | 263 (77.8) | 71 (21.0) | 4 (1.2) | 338 | ||
| 3 | 38 (90.5) | 4 (9.5) | 42 | |||
| 4 | 14 (100.0) | 14 | ||||
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