Human parvovirus PARV4 in clotting factor VIII concentrates

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Parvoviruses are small non-enveloped DNA viruses, relatively resistant to virus inactivation procedures. The recently identified human parvovirus PARV4, including a related genotype 2 virus (also termed PARV5), has been found to be a contaminant of pooled plasma used in the manufacture of plasma-derived products. This report describes an investigation to determine whether PARV4 is...

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