說明
Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is the most fatal form of enteroviruses, repeatedly causing large outbreaks of hand, food and mouth disease in the Asia–Pacific region. APNES was established to provide a global enterovirus surveillance network to monitthe epidemics, virus evolution, and immune responses to vaccines fenteroviruses in the region. First phase APNES members include: the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) in Cambodia, University of Malaya (UM) and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) in Malaysia, the Children’s Hospital No. 1 of Ho Chi Minh City (CH1–HCMC) and the Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City (PI–HCMC) in Vietnam, and NHRI in Taiwan. It is our pleasure to have Thailand joining the network in the second phase.