Article
[Genetic diversity of human Parvovirus B19 VP1 unique region].
Zhonghua er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of pediatrics - 1 Feb 2003
Qian Xin-hong, Zhang Guo-cheng, Jiao Xi-ying, Zhang Ping, Sun Xin, Cao Yu-hong, Xu Dong-liang, Fei Lin-lin, Huang Wen-jin
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Human Parvovirus B19 (HPV B19) is a small (23 nm), non-enveloped DNA virus found in 1974. It has been proved that HPV B19 is associated with a variety of childhood diseases, such as erythema infectious, transient aplastic crisis, aplastic anemia, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and arthropathy, etc. There have been no any effective vaccines to prevent HPV B19 infection so far. The HPV B19 genome is...
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