Reports a case of Coxsackievirus B5 associated with hand-foot-mouth disease in a healthy adult.
Alerts clinicians to severe HFMD in recent outbreaks; leaves open need for prospective studies on complications and prevention.
Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is an acute and highly contagious viral exanthem that commonly affects children younger than 5 years.1 The infection can be symptomatic and the clinical manifestations include mild fever with a characteristic vesicular eruption on the hands, feet, and oral cavity.2 Historically, HFMD is known as a self-limited disease process. However, recurrent outbreaks over the last 2 decades in the Asian and Pacific populations have caused severe illness and debilitating complications, even death.
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