Coxsackievirus A10 causing hand-foot-and-mouth disease in Uruguay

Andrés Lizasoain; Daiana Mir; Natalia Martínez; Rodney Colina

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.012

Coxsackievirus A10 causing hand-foot-and-mouth disease in Uruguay

Int J Infect Dis. 2020 May:94:1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.012. Epub 2020 Feb 17.

Authors

Andrés Lizasoain¹, Daiana Mir², Natalia Martínez³, Rodney Colina⁴

Affiliations

¹ Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República, 1350 Gral. Rivera St, 50000, Salto, Uruguay.
² Unidad de Genómica y Bioinformática, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República, 1350 Gral. Rivera St, 50000, Salto, Uruguay.
³ Corporación Médica de Paysandú-COMEPA, 1224 Colón St, 60000, Paysandú, Uruguay; Residente de Pediatría, Clínica Pediátrica A, Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell, Universidad de la República, 1550 Gral. Artigas Blvd, 11600, Montevideo, Uruguay.
⁴ Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República, 1350 Gral. Rivera St, 50000, Salto, Uruguay. Electronic address: rodneycolina1@gmail.com.

PMID: 32081777
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.012

Abstract

We report for the first time in South America an HFMD case associated with Coxsackievirus A10. The viral strain belongs to a lineage involved in important European outbreaks and probably entered Uruguay after 2017 with a Greek origin. These findings call for strengthening the regional surveillance of HFMD.

Keywords: Ancestral character reconstruction; Coxsackievirus; Enterovirus; Epidemic; HFMD; Phylogeny.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Animals
Coxsackievirus Infections / virology*
Disease Outbreaks
Enterovirus A, Human* / classification
Female
Genotype
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease / virology*
Humans
Infant
Phylogeny
Uruguay / epidemiology