Enterovirus-related diarrhoea in Guangdong, China: clinical features and implications in hand, foot and mouth disease and herpangina

BMC Infectious Diseases

Research Article

Mei Yang¹  Bin Wang²  Shao-Hua Tao²  Hai-Su Yi³  Nan Yu³  Man-Jun Chen³  Yong-Hui Guo³  Yu-Xian Pan³  Hong-Tao Zhou⁴ 

[1] Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 510282, Guangdong, China;Department of Pediatrics, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 510282, Guangdong, China;Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Division of Laboratory Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, No. 253 Gong Ye Da Dao Zhong, 510282, Guangzhou, China;Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Division of Laboratory Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, No. 253 Gong Ye Da Dao Zhong, 510282, Guangzhou, China;Department of Clinical Laboratory, Hainan Provincial People’s Hospital, No. 19 Xiuhua Road,, 570311, Haikou, China;

关键词: Enterovirus;    Diarrhoea;    Hand;    Foot and mouth disease;    Herpangina;    Clinical features;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12879-016-1463-9

 received in 2015-03-26, accepted in 2016-03-10,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundA series of complications caused by enteroviruses, including meningitis, encephalitis, acute flaccid paralysis, acute cardiopulmonary failure, respiratory infection, and myocardial injury have been reported in hand, foot and mouth disease/herpangina (HFMD/HA). However, the complication of diarrhoea caused by enteroviruses has been neglected, and a summary of its clinical features and impact on HFMD/HA is unavailable.MethodsWe included inpatients with HFMD/HA admitted to the Paediatric Department of Zhujiang Hospital during 2009–2012. We summarised and compared clinical data for cases with and without diarrhoea, and determined enterovirus serotypes by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction and genotyping based on a partial-length fragment of viral protein 1 or the 5’-untranslated region.ResultsThere were 804 inpatients with HFMD/HA and 28 (3.5 %) presented with diarrhoea. Gastrointestinal symptoms were mild in most cases of diarrhoea (82.1 %), with high prevalence of no dehydration (82.1 %), short duration of diarrhoea (78.6 %) and watery stools (75.0 %). The prevalence of multi-organ dysfunction syndrome (10.7 vs 0.40 %) (p = 0.001), hepatic injury (14.3 vs 3.4 %) (p = 0.019), myocardial injury (21.4 vs 6.1 %) (p = 0.002) and convulsion (21.4 vs 7.2 %) (p = 0.016) was significantly higher in the diarrhoea than no diarrhoea group. There was no significant difference between the two groups regarding prevalence of death, altered consciousness, paralysis, central nervous system involvement, or acute respiratory infection.ConclusionsMost patients with diarrhoea caused by enteroviruses circulating in Guangdong Province in 2009–2012 had mild or moderate gastrointestinal symptoms. Although enterovirus-related diarrhoea caused additional multi-organ dysfunction syndrome, hepatic injury and myocardial injury in children with HFMD/HA, timely intervention efficiently reduced disease severity and improved outcome.

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