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Human parvovirus infection in homozygous sickle cell disease.
Lancet (London, England) - 15 May 1993
Serjeant G R, Serjeant B E, Thomas P W, Anderson M J, Patou G, Pattison J R
Abstract excerpt
We studied the epidemiology of human parvovirus B19 infection in 308 children with homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease and 239 controls with a normal haemoglobin (AA) genotype followed from birth in a cohort study. Annual serum samples identified the time and frequency of B19 infection, which did not differ between SS and AA children, about 40% of each group developing specific IgG by age 15. B19 infection...
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