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. 2012 Feb;18(2):337-9.
doi: 10.3201/eid1802.111147.

Hand, foot, and mouth disease caused by coxsackievirus A6, Japan, 2011

Tsuguto Fujimoto, Setsuko Iizuka, Miki Enomoto, Katsuhiko Abe, Kazuyo Yamashita, Nozomu Hanaoka, Nobuhiko Okabe, Hiromu Yoshida, Yoshinori Yasui, Masaaki Kobayashi, Yoshiki Fujii, Hiroko Tanaka, Miwako Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Shimizu

Hand, foot, and mouth disease caused by coxsackievirus A6, Japan, 2011

Tsuguto Fujimoto et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Feb.
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Typical clinical manifestations of hand, foot, and mouth disease associated with coxsackievirus CVA6 in Shizuoka, Japan, June–July, 2011. A) Hand and arm of a 2.5-year-old boy; B) foot and C) buttocks of a 6-year-old boy; D) nail matrix of a 20-month old boy.
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