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Abstract
A mild, highly infectious viral disease of children, characterized by vesicular lesions in the mouth and on the hands and feet. It is caused by coxsackieviruses A.
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- Hand Foot and Mouth Disease
- Hand, Foot, Mouth Disease
- Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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do not confuse with FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE or with HAND-FOOT SYNDROME
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History Note
91(75); was see under COXSACKIEVIRUS INFECTIONS 1979-90; was see under COXSACKIE VIRUS INFECTIONS 1970-78
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- National Library of Medicine. Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006232. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006232
- Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot,_and_mouth_disease
- Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q652744