Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Outbreak and Coxsackievirus A6, Northern Spain, 2011

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Population

99 children <4 years of age with Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease during an outbreak in Northern Spain in 2011.

Design

Case_series

Follow-up

9-67 days

Authors

Discussion

Warrants daycare surveillance for CVA6-driven HFMD; leaves open need for larger studies on transmission and prevention.

Population

99 children <4 years of age (median age 1.8 years, 53 boys) with Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (HFMD) during an outbreak in Northern Spain in 2011.

Coxsackievirus A6 can cause rapidly developing HFMD outbreaks with high attack rates but mild clinical courses in young children.

HFMD is not subject to epidemiologic surveillance in Spain, and thus its real incidence cannot be identified.

Montes et al. (2013) studied this question.

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