Haemagglutination by parvovirus B19

Parvovirus B19.

N Engl J Med 2004;350:586-97. Copyright © 2004 Massachusetts Medical Society. vonne cossart, an australian virologist working in london in the mid-1970s, noted an anomalous reaction of a normal blood donor’s serum (occupying position 19 in plate B) in an assay for hepatitis B. When Cossart excised the line of antigen–antibody precipitation, she saw the particles shown in Figure 1A, and in this ...

Parvovirus B19 Associated Hepatitis

Parvovirus B19 infection can present with myriads of clinical diseases and syndromes; liver manifestations and hepatitis are examples of them. Parvovirus B19 hepatitis associated aplastic anemia and its coinfection with other hepatotropic viruses are relatively underrecognized, and there is sufficient evidence in the literature suggesting that B19 infections can cause a spectrum of liver diseas...

Parvovirus B19 in pregnancy.

Parvovirus B19 is a widespread infection that may affects 1-5% of pregnant women, mainly with normal pregnancy outcome. The prevalence of infection is higher during epidemics - between 3 and 20% with sero-conversion rate of 3-34%. Infection during pregnancy can cause a variety of other signs of fetal damage. The risk of adverse fetal outcome is increased if maternal infection occurs during the ...

Parvovirus B19 Associated Arthritis

Correspondence to: Tommy Cheung Abstract: Parvovirus B19 infection is common and widespread. The most well described presentations are transient aplastic crisis especially in patients with sickle cell anemia and erythema infectiosum in children. However, further studies showed that B19 infection could cause a variety of clinical presentations resembling rheumatic diseases. B19 associated arthri...

Parvovirus B19 infection in pregnancy.