Emergence of genotype C1 Enterovirus A71 and its link with antigenic variation of virus in Taiwan.

An outbreak of the hand-foot-mouth disease with severe neurological cases, mainly caused by the genotype C1 enterovirus A71 (EV-A71), occurred in Taiwan between 2018 and early 2019. In the recent decade, the most dominant EV-A71 genotypes in Taiwan were B5 and C4 but changed to C1 in 2018. Antibody-...

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Main Authors: Kuan-Ying A Huang, Peng-Nien Huang, Yhu-Chering Huang, Shu-Li Yang, Kuo-Chien Tsao, Cheng-Hsun Chiu, Shin-Ru Shih, Tzou-Yien Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-09-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008857