BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The clinical features of parvovirus B19 infection in adult patients have not been well described. The aim of this prospective study was to clarify the clinical features of adult patients with parvovirus B19 infection in primary care settings. METHODS The study subjects were adults over age 18 years who had visited one primary care clinic over a period of one year. Th...

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...

background: the etiology of the behçet disease (bd) has remained obscured. there have been studies to show the association of bd to infections like herpes simplex, hepatitis, and parvovirus b19 however, the findings are rather controversial. materials and methods: we selected 55 patients with the best matched symptoms of bd and measured the loads of b19 dna in their plasma by quantitative real ...

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 The relevance of viral infections in the development of allograft lesions is still unclear, although some viruses have been implicated. The present study investigated systemic and intrarenal viral infections in kidney transplant recipients and their association with the risk of acute rejection and chronic allograft injuries that are predictive of long-term dysfunction. METHODS The ...

Parvovirus B19 is a well-established cause of fetal anemia and nonimmune fetal hydrops in pregnancy. Fetal parvovirus infection can cause severe destruction of erythroid progenitor cells, resulting in fetal anemia, hydrops, and intrauterine death. However, viral myocarditis with subsequent heart failure is another possible mechanism for hydrops formation as viral infection of fetal myocardial c...

BACKGROUND Human parvovirus B19 is the etiologic agent of erythema infectiosum in children. It is also associated with other clinical manifestations in different target groups. Patients with chronic hemolytic anemia are at high risk of developing acute erythroblastopenia following infection by the virus. They usually become highly viremic and pose an increased risk of virus transmission. Close ...

Infection with parvovirus B19 causes several clinical syndromes (fifth disease, transient aplastic crisis, pure red cell aplasia, and hydrops fetalis) and may contribute to other illnesses. B19 has been linked to renal disease in three settings: As a cause of acute glomerulopathy and as a cause of anemia in ESRD and kidney transplantation. Case reports implicate parvovirus in the pathogenesis o...