Letter to the EditorEpidemic characteristics of hand, foot, and mouth disease in southern China, 2013: Coxsackievirus A6 has emerged as the predominant causative agent
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Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the National S&T Major Project China Mega-Project for Infectious Disease (Grant No. 2011ZX10004-001) from the People's Republic of China and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB504903). We thank Dr. Teemu Smura from university of Helsinki for instruction of evolutionary analysis.
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Jin-Lin Li and Jing Yuan contributed equally to this work.
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