An outbreak of hand-foot-and-mouth disease mimicking chicken pox, with a frequent association of onychomadesis in Japan in 2009: a new phenotype caused by coxsackievirus A6

Eur J Dermatol. 2014 Jan-Feb;24(1):103-4. doi: 10.1684/ejd.2013.2222.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Chickenpox / diagnosis*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Coxsackievirus Infections / complications
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Disease Outbreaks*
  • Female
  • Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease / complications
  • Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease / diagnosis*
  • Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease / epidemiology*
  • Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease / genetics
  • Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease / virology
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Japan / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Nail Diseases / virology
  • Phenotype