Abstract
Epidemiological characteristics of HFMD outbreak were analysed in this paper. It took place in three of New Belgrade's preschools in the period of 0931.05.2016. Descriptive epidemiological method was used for the outbreak analysis. Data were collected from Reports of Center for Disease Control and Prevention, City Institute of Public Health Belgrade, from the case history of sick children, and using the results of the virological and serological analyses that had been done in Reference Laboratory of the Institute of Virology, Vaccines and Sera 'Torlak'. In this outbreak 49 cases were registered among 189 exposed children. There were more boys (59%) than girls. The majority of children were 3 years (42.8%) and 2 years of age (36.7%). The main symptoms and signs of disease were skin rash, malaise and 77.5% of sick children had a fever. One swab was taken and an Enterovirus was detected by Real Time PCR method. The disease passed without any complication.
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