Population
12,236 laboratory-confirmed enterovirus cases in Taiwan between 2000 and 2005, median age 3 years, 57.6% male.
Design
Cross-sectional
Follow-up
2000 to 2005
Authors
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EV71 monitoring may inform outbreak vigilance; leaves open whether serotype patterns persist beyond 2005.
Coxsackievirus A16 and EV71 were the most prevalent enterovirus serotypes in Taiwan from 2000-2005, with EV71 causing the most severe complications.
Tseng et al. (2007) studied this question.
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