[Coxsackievirus A group 16 strain].

Zhongguo Yi Miao He Mian Yi

State Key Laboratory for Molecular Virology and Genetic Engineering, Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China.

Published: February 2009

Coxsackievirus A group 16 strain (CVA16) is one of the predominate causative agent of the hand, foot and mouth disease (HFHD). It is very helpful to improve the hand, foot and mouth disease and other associated diseases control and prevention by understanding its biological characteristics, pathogenic mechanism and clinical manifestations, laboratory diagnoses, epidemiology and molecular epidemiology. In the future, we should continue to emphasize the study, improve the diagnostic method and develop vaccine of CVA16. A sound monitoring network of both epidemiology and laboratory will be estabished as well, which can contribute to predicting and prewarning the epidemic conditions of CVA16, and is much important scientific tools for preventing the hand, foot and mouth disease associated with CVA16.

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