Parvovirus B19 infection can cause severe effects in high-risk groups including pregnant women and immunocompromised individuals. Although serological detection of B19 infection is commonplace, minimal information is available on the absolute performance characteristics of various tests for the detection of B19 IgM. The performance of the first parvovirus B19 IgM enzyme immunoassay to be cleare...

Because parvovirus B19 infection during pregnancy has been associated with increased risk of fetal loss in small or selected study populations, the authors evaluated the risk in a population-based study. A nested casecontrol study was conducted by using a population-based screening for syphilis in 3 regions in Denmark from 1992 to 1994. Cases of women with fetal loss were identified in the Nati...

BACKGROUND Maternofetal parvovirus B19 infection may result in fetal hydrops or abortion. Chronic infection has been associated with long term complications (polyarthritis, persistent aplastic anaemia, hepatitis). In pregnancy maternal immunosuppression caused by a TH2 dominant response to viral antigens has been observed. There is little information on long term reactivity to intrauterine infe...

Dear Sir, Recently we came across an interesting case of coinfection of Parvovirus B19 with falciparum malaria. The patient was a 7-year-old boy presenting with complaints of high-grade fever, fatigue and abdominal pain for five days. There was no history of jaundice. Physical examination revealed a temperature of 38.5°C, pallor and mild hepatosplenomegaly. Hematological investigations showed h...

The three-dimensional structure of the single-stranded DNA canine parvovirus has been determined to 3.25 A resolution. Monoclinic crystals belonging to space group P2(1) (a = 263.1, b = 348.9, c = 267.2 A, beta = 90.82 degrees) were selected for data collection using primarily the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source and oscillation photography. There was one icosahedral particle per crystall...

To provide optimal care, a veterinarian in a pediatric intensive care situation for a puppy or kitten should be familiar with normal and abnormal vital signs, nursing care and monitoring considerations, and probable diseases. This article is a brief discussion of the pediatric intensive care commonly required to treat puppies or kittens in emergency situations and for canine parvovirus type 2 e...

Background: Maternal parvovirus B19 infection can lead to serious consequences in the fetus including fetal death, non-immune hydrops fetalis and possibly long-term adverse neurodevelopmental outcome. To date, there has been no systematic review of the literature regarding long-term outcomes of these infants and children. Objective: To systematically review the literature on the long-term neuro...

Public databases of nucleotide sequences contain exponentially increasing amounts of sequence data from mammalian genomes. Through the use of large-scale bioinformatic screening for sequences homologous to exogenous mammalian viruses, we found several sequences related to human and animal parvoviruses (PVs) in the Parvovirus and Dependovirus genera within genomes of several mammals, including r...

The oncotropism of Minute Virus of Mice (MVMp) is partially related to the stimulation of an antiviral response mediated by type-I interferons (IFNs) in normal but not in transformed mouse cells. The present work was undertaken to assess whether the oncotropism displayed against human cells by MVMp and its rat homolog H-1PV also depends on antiviral mechanisms and to identify the pattern recogn...

Here, we report the complete genome sequence of the novel goose parvovirus (NGPV) strain SC16 (NGPV-SC16), which was isolated from Sichuan Province, China, in 2016 and is a cause of the newly emerging beak atrophy and dwarfism syndrome in ducklings and a moderately pathogenic GPV-related parvovirus. The whole genome of strain NGPV-SC16 was 5,109 nucleotides long.