Analysis of laboratory testing results of etiology and epidemiological characteristics of hand-foot-mouth disease in Dongcheng District,Beijing City during 2013~2015
Objective To analyze the laboratory testing results and epidemiological characteristics of hand-foot-mouth disease(HFMD) in Dongcheng District, Beijing City, China during 2013 ~ 2015. Methods A total of 312 throat swabs were collected from suspected patients with HFMD in Dongcheng Distruct during 2013 ~ 2015, including 225 monitoring samples and 87 epidemic samples, and identified for the type of enterovirus(EV)by HFMD DNA detection kit, based on which viruses were isolated from partial EV positive samples....