手足口病是由肠道病毒引起的常见传染病,以婴幼儿发病为主。大多数患者症状轻微,以发热和手、足、口腔等部位的皮疹或疱疹为主要特征。少数患者可并发无菌性脑膜炎、脑炎、急性弛缓性麻痹、呼吸道感染和心肌炎等,个别重症患儿病情进展快,易发生死亡。少年儿童和成人感染后多不发病,但能够传播病毒。 Hand, foot and mouth disease is caused by enterovirus common infectious diseases, mainly to infant and child diseases. Most patients with mild symptoms, with fever and hand, foot, mouth and other parts of the rash or herpes as the main feature. A small number of patients may be complicated by aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, acute flaccid paralysis, respiratory tract infections and myocarditis, the rapid progress of individual cases of severe illness, prone to death. Children and adults do not develop much morbidity but can spread the virus.