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Variants of B19.
Developments in biologicals - 1 Jan 2004
Brown K E
Abstract excerpt
The human parvovirus B19 (B19), the only known human pathogenic parvovirus, was discovered in 1975. Like other parvoviruses it is a small (22-24 nm diameter) non-enveloped icosahedral virus, with a single-stranded genome. As part of its life history it replicates to high titre in the bone marrow, and in acute infection high titres of infectious virus are present in the peripheral blood. Parvovirus B19 is...
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