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Descriptor English: Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedad de Boca, Mano y Pie
Descriptor enfermedad mano pie y boca
Entry term(s) enfermedad de manos, pies y boca
síndrome de manos, pies y boca
Scope note: Enfermedad vírica leve, muy infecciosa, que afecta a los niños. Se caracteriza por lesiones vesiculares en la boca, las manos y los pies. La producen los coxsackievirus A.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doença de Mão, Pé e Boca
Descriptor French: Syndrome mains-pieds-bouche
Entry term(s): Hand Foot and Mouth Disease
Hand, Foot, Mouth Disease
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
Tree number(s): C01.925.782.687.359.213.331
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006232
Scope note: A mild, highly infectious viral disease of children, characterized by vesicular lesions in the mouth and on the hands and feet. It is caused by coxsackieviruses A.
Annotation: do not confuse with FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE or with HAND-FOOT SYNDROME
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under COXSACKIEVIRUS INFECTIONS 1979-90; was see under COXSACKIE VIRUS INFECTIONS 1970-78
Online Note: search COXSACKIEVIRUS INFECTIONS 1970-74
History Note: 91(75); was see under COXSACKIEVIRUS INFECTIONS 1979-90; was see under COXSACKIE VIRUS INFECTIONS 1970-78
Entry Version: HAND FOOT MOUTH DIS
Related: Hand-Foot Syndrome MeSH
DeCS ID: 6381
Unique ID: D006232
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1978/02/22
Revision Date: 2020/01/16
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease - Preferred
Concept UI M0009785
Scope note A mild, highly infectious viral disease of children, characterized by vesicular lesions in the mouth and on the hands and feet. It is caused by coxsackieviruses A.
Preferred term Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
Entry term(s) Hand Foot and Mouth Disease
Hand, Foot, Mouth Disease
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease



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