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Volume 6, Issue 5(Suppl) Epidemiology (Sunnyvale)
ISSN: 2161-1165 ECR, Open Access
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Epidemiology 2016
October 3-5, 2016
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Epidemiology & Public HealthOctober 3-5, 2016|London, UK
4th International Conference on
HOSPITAL-BASED SURVEILLANCE OF ENTEROVIRUS 71 IN HO CHI MINH CITY,
VIETNAM, 2011-2014
Shu-Ting Luoa, Wang-Yu Chunga, Le Nguyen Thanh Nhanb, LB Lien b, Truong Huu Khanhb, Tran Ngoc Hanh Danb, Le Phan Kim Thoab, Nguyen Thanh
Hungb, Chun-Yang Lina, Pai-Shan Chianga, Ih-Jen Su and Min-Shi Leea
aNational Health Research Institutes(NHRI), Taiwan
bChildren Hospital No.1, Vietnam
Human enteroviruses are classified into four species (A, B, C, and D) and include over 100 serotypes. Except polioviruses
and enterovirus A71 (EV71) which frequently cause neurological complications, human enteroviruses usually cause self-
limited infections. EV71 was first identified and a large-scale EV71 epidemic was documented in southern Vietnam in 2003
which reported 173 EV71 cases, including 51 with neurological complications and 3 fatal cases. In 2011, a large-scale EV71
epidemic occurred with more than 5,000 inpatients and 32 fatal cases in CH1, HCM. NHRI cooperated with CH1 to establish
hospital-based surveillance of enterovirus in HCM City in 2011. Inpatients <0.5 years of age to 17.2, 24.0, 29.4, 58.6 at 0.5-0.9,
1-1.9, 2-2.9, 3-3.9 and 4-4.9 years of age, respectively. Risk of EV71 infections in Vietnam increased after 6 months of age.
Vietnamese children in HCM City acquired EV71 infections at an early age and vaccine development in Vietnam should target
young children.
Biography
Shu-Ting Luo completed master’s degree in 2004 from Department of Public Health of National Defense Medical Center. She worked at National Health Research
Institutes for 10 years. Her main duty was development of EV71 vaccine in Taiwan: epidemiology and disease burden.
Shu-Ting Luo et al., Epidemiology (Sunnyvale), 6:5(Suppl)