Human parvovirus infection in homozygous sickle cell disease.

doi:10.1016/0140-6736(93)91145-c

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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

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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...

Topics

Adolescent
Anemia, Aplastic
Anemia, Sickle Cell
Child
Child, Preschool
Cohort Studies
Erythema Infectiosum
Follow-Up Studies
Genotype
Hemoglobins
Humans
Immunoglobulin G
Incidence
Infant
Infant, Newborn
West Indies

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