Cordeiro e Cunha, Joana and Lima Silva, Ana and Nogueira, Renato Maia and Silva Fernandes, Diana and Salazar, Tatiana and Vilela, Maria and Salomão, Jorge (2020) Exuberant Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease: An Immunocompetent Adult with Atypical Findings. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 7 (7). pp. 1-4. ISSN ISSN: 2284-2594
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Abstract
Non-polio enteroviruses are ubiquitous viruses responsible for a wide spectrum of disease in people of all ages, although infection and illness disproportionately affect infants and young children. Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is an enteroviral clinical syndrome most frequently caused by coxsackievirus-A16 and enterovirus-A71. Since 2008, a novel coxsackievirus-A6 genotype has been associated with more severe HFMD in both children and adults, presenting with a unique constellation of findings, and whose prevalence has been increasing over the last few years. In this case report, an atypical clinical picture of confirmed enterovirus HFMD is described in an immunocompetent adult, with exuberant clinical findings, clinically consistent with coxsackievirus-A6 infection. This case report highlights the importance of awareness of the clinical presentation of this increasingly common infection in adults
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Hand-foot-mouth disease, enterovirus, viral illness, exanthematous fever |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2021 14:32 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Dec 2021 14:32 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/20923 |
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