Zhonghua er ke za zhi, 2013-04, Vol.51 (4), p.265
2013
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- Titel
- Retrospective analysis of clinical and epidemiological characteristics of hand-foot-and-mouth disease deceased cases in Zhejiang Province
- Ist Teil von
- Zhonghua er ke za zhi, 2013-04, Vol.51 (4), p.265
- Ort / Verlag
- China
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2013
- Quelle
- MEDLINE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- To understand the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) deceased cases. Information of demographics, diagnosis and treatment, clinical symptoms and signs, laboratory test results, and epidemiological contact history of 72 HFMD cases who died between May 2008 and September 2011, in Zhejiang Province, were collected and analyzed. The average age of the 72 cases was 1.8 years, 45 were males, accounting for 62.5%, 63 (87.5%) of the cases were scattered children. Eighteen counties reported 2 or more deaths, accounting for 46.1% (18/39) among the counties where the deaths were reported. The deaths occurred mainly in April to August, the peak occurred in May and June. Fever (98.4%, 63/64) and rash (95.1%, 58/61) were the most common symptoms, but the rash was not obvious at the first diagnosis. Fever occurred before the rash (79.0%, 49/62), persisted for 4 days in average. Vomiting (71.9%, 46/64), dyspnea (65.6%, 42/64), cyanosis (53.1%, 34/64) and impaired consciousness
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- Chinesisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0578-1310Titel-ID: cdi_pubmed_primary_23927799
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- Schlagworte
- Animals, Child, Preschool, China - epidemiology, Disease Outbreaks, Enterovirus A, Human - isolation & purification, Feces - virology, Female, Fever - etiology, Fever - pathology, Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease - epidemiology, Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease - mortality, Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease - pathology, Humans, Infant, Male, Retrospective Studies, Sex Distribution