enterovirus 71


enterovirus 71

Virology A virulent epidemic enterovirus serotype identified in 1969 in California Clinical Asymptomatic or diarrhea, rashes, hand-foot-mouth disease–vesicular lesions of hands, feet and oral mucosa, herpangina, aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, myocarditis, acute flaccid paralysis, rhombencephalitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, rapidly fatal pulmonary edema, hemorrhage

enterovirus 71

Abbreviation: EV71
The virus that causes hand-foot-and-mouth disease. In about 30% of infected people, it causes neurological disease, e.g., encephalitis, viral meningitis, or flaccid paralysis. See also: enterovirus