title: Herpangina surveillance in Japan, 1982-1989. A report of the national epidemiological surveillance of infectious agents in Japan.
abstract: In Japan, herpangina cases increase every summer with an incidence peak in July. During the past eight years from January, 1982 to December, 1989, a total of 3,974 viruses from herpangina cases were reported from 47 participating laboratories, and coxsackie A (CA) viruses accounted for most of them, 3,055 (76.9%). The major types associated with herpangina were, in order of frequency, CA4, 10, 5, 6, 2 and 3, representing 87.2%-80.8% of total isolations reported for each respective type in this period. Eighty-four point four percent of the total virus isolations were from children at four years of age or younger. More than 80% of total CA virus isolations were from nasopharyngeal specimens and nearly 90% of the viruses were isolated in mice.
authors.affiliation: Central Virus Diagnostic Laboratory, National Institute of Health, musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamadera
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akatsuka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyamura
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004770:Enterovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006557:Herpangina / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D013997:Time Factors