Objective:To study the epidemiological characteristics and pathogen status of infection of patients with herpetic pharyngitis in eastern region of Chengdu in 2022, in order to provide experimental basis for scientific prevention and control of herpetic pharyngitis.Methods:Information and fecal specimens were collected from patients diagnosed with herpetic angina at sentinel monitoring hospitals in eastern region of Chengdu from January to December 2022, their epidemiological characteristics were analyzed, real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR (RT-PCR) and semi nested RT-PCR (RT-snPCR) were used to detect and identify enterovirus subtypes.Results:Among the 236 cases of herpetic angina, the age of the affected children was mainly 0-9 years (99.15%), with children aged below 3 years accounting for 75.85% of the total cases, children in the 1-year-old group had the highest constituent ratio, accounting for 47.88% of the total cases; The virus detection rate in the 2-year-old group was higher than that in the 0-year-old group ( χ2=5.945, P=0.015). There were 142 male infected cases (60.17%) and 94 female cases (39.83%); there was a statistically significant difference in the virus detection rate between the male group (91.55%) and the female group (78.72%) ( χ2=7.938, P=0.005). In the seasonal distribution, the summer group had the highest constituent ratio (40.25%), while the winter group had the lowest constituent ratio (11.86%), The composition ratio of the summer group was significantly higher than that of the other groups, and the differences were statistically significant ( χ2=10.393, 19.199, 49.358, all P<0.001). The virus detection rate in the summer group was significantly higher than that in the spring group and the winter group ( χ2=16.951, 4.592, both P<0.05). The RT-PCR result showed that a total of 204 out of 236 children with herpetic angina were virus positive, with a detection rate of 86.44% (204/236), including coxsackievirus A (CV-A) 6 (22.55%), CV-A16 (5.88%), CV-A2 (2.94%), enterovirus type A71 (EV-A71) (2.94%), and other enteroviruses (65.69%). The RT-snPCR result showed that five viruses were identified from other enteroviruses, including CV-A4 (8.33%), CV-A5 (6.86%), CV-A10 (12.25%), CV-A12 (24.02%), and coxsackievirus B3 (CV-B3) (6.86%); another 15 positive samples of enterovirus were not successfully classified. We selected 9 strains of the virus in this study and 30 reference sequences from the NCBI database to. Conclusions:Herpetic angina in eastern region of Chengdu in 2022 is mainly found in male children under 3 years of age, and was concentrated between April and June. It has been confirmed that CV-A12 and CV-A6 were more common in intestinal viruses, and the 9 strains isolated in this study were homologous to multiple isolates.