| EV-A | Enterovirus alphacoxsackie |
| CVA | Coxsackievirus A |
| SAPs | Single amino acid polymorphisms |
| SAAPS | Single Amino Acid Polymorphism Statistics |
| kSAPs | Key SAP sites |
| HFMD | Hand, foot, and mouth disease |
| ORF | Open reading frame |
| ML | Maximum Likelihood |
| NJ | Neighbor-Joining |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| IC | Information Content |
| OPTICS | Ordering Points to Identify the Clustering Structure |
| DEGs | Differentially expressed genes |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| ICTV | The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses |
| NCBI | The National Center for Biotechnology Information |