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Hand Foot Mouth Disease recurrence is a very rare clinical phenomenon, as documented in this report of a sporadic pediatric case.
Documents a very rare occurrence of recurrent Hand Foot Mouth Disease in a pediatric patient.
Recurrent HFMD warrants clinical awareness in children; this case leaves open questions on mechanisms and surveillance.
Hand Foot Mouth Disease (HFMD) is a viral infection of children caused by Coxsackie virus A-16, a type of enterovirus. Individual cases and outbreaks of HFMD occur worldwide. There are reports of HFMD epidemics from India. Recurrence of HFMD is very rare. We report here, a sporadic case of recurrent HFMD.
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Dias et al. (2012) studied this question. Hand Foot Mouth Disease recurrence is a very rare clinical phenomenon, as documented in this report of a sporadic pediatric case.
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