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Genetic variants of parvovirus B19 identified in the United Kingdom: implications for diagnostic testing.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Jun 2006
Cohen B J, Gandhi J, Clewley J P
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BACKGROUND: Discrepant results in diagnostic parvovirus B19 PCR assays have been observed with strains showing nucleotide sequence variation. OBJECTIVES AND STUDY DESIGN: To perform phylogenetic analysis on two parvovirus B19 strains that gave discrepant PCR results. RESULTS: One strain was found to be genotype 2; the second strain was genotype 3. CONCLUSIONS: Parvovirus B19 genotypes 2 and 3 strains were...
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