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Towards broadly protective polyvalent vaccines against hand, foot and mouth disease
Journal article   Peer reviewed

Towards broadly protective polyvalent vaccines against hand, foot and mouth disease

Qingwei Liu, Xin Tong, Zhong Huang and Essam Hassan Ibrahim
Microbes and infection, Vol.17(2), pp.155-162
02/2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2014.11.004
PMID: 25449959

Abstract

Coxsackievirus A16 Enterovirus 71 Hand, foot, and mouth disease Polyvalent vaccine
Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) caused by multiple enterovirus infections is a serious health threat to children in the Asia–Pacific region. This article reviews progresses in the development of vaccines for HFMD and discusses the need for polyvalent HFMD vaccines for conferring broad-spectrum protection.

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