#Epidemiology of #HFMD and #genomic #surveillance of #coxsackievirus A10 circulating in #Zhejiang Province, #China during 2017 to 2022, J Clin Virol.: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcv.2023.105552 #enterovirus #HEV #vaccines #research #science #medicine

Detroit school closes after student dies; officials investigate "unusually high rate" of flu-like cases

Seventeen children fell sick at a Detroit preschool due to hand, foot, and mouth disease. And students at an elementary school are experiencing an unusually high rate of flu-like symptoms. Tragically, one of them — a kindergartener — died.

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Further reading: (cont.)

2) A 1997 paper on persistent enteroviral myocarditis found that "approximately equal amounts of plus and minus strand RNA were detected in cases of persistent cardiac infection."
https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1096-9071(199706)52:2%3C206::aid-jmv15%3E3.0.co;2-i

3) A 1999 paper on persistent #coxsackievirus infection of muscle cells found that "plus- and minus-strand viral RNAs were present at nearly equivalent levels in muscle and that they persisted in a double-stranded conformation."
https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.73.12.10113-10121.1999

An excellent overview on #coxsackievirus targeting drugs.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/rmv.2406