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Prevalence of erythrovirus genotypes in the myocardium of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jul 2008
Kühl U, Lassner D, Pauschinger M, Gross U M, Seeberg B, Noutsias M, Poller W, Schultheiss H-P
Abstract excerpt
Parvovirus B19 (PVB19) is a member of the human erythrovirus family detected frequently in endomyocardial biopsies from patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. Human erythroviruses cluster into three genotypes 1-3 which share a high degree of homology between major structural proteins and may cause indistinguishable infections clinically and serologically. In human cardiac tissue erythrovirus genotypes other than...
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