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  The Enterovirus A (sero)type enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) causes a variety of neurological diseases including aseptic meningitis, encephalitis and poliomyelitis-like paralysis (Melnick, 1984; Schmidt et al., 1974). EV-A71 is also one of the enterovirus serotypes often associated with hand, foot and mouth disease.  Based on VP1 sequence data, EV-A71 can be divided into four main genotypes, A to D (Deshpande et al., 2003).

References

Deshpande, J.M., Nadkarni, S.S. and Francis, P.P. (2003). Enterovirus 71 isolated from a case of acute flaccid paralysis in India represents a new genotype. Current Science 84(10), 1350-1353.

Melnick, J.L., (1984). Rev. Infect. Dis., 6: S387–S390.

Schmidt, N.J., Lennette, E.H. and Ho, H.H. (1974) J. Infect. Dis.,129: 304–309.
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