Ritesh Kumar

Epidemiological insights of hand, foot, and mouth disease: outbreak of Coxsackievirus A16 in Northern India

Background Hand-and-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) is an important epidemiological problem in Asia with global dissemination potential. The causative agents are Coxsackievirus A16 (CVA16), Enterovirus -71 (EV-A71), and related serogroups, which mainly affects children <10 years. S...