Japanese Journal of Clinical Immunology
Online ISSN : 1349-7413
Print ISSN : 0911-4300
ISSN-L : 0911-4300
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Various clinical symptoms in human parvovirus B19 infection
Kotaro KUMANO
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2008 Volume 31 Issue 6 Pages 448-453

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Abstract
  Human parvovirus B19 infection causes erythema infectiosum in child, aplastic crisis in patients with chronic hemolytic anemia, chronic pure red cell aplasia in immunocompromised patients and hydrops fetalis. Human parvovirus B19 causes arthritis and acute glomerulonephritis due to immunological mechanism. Other disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis and thrombotic microangiopathy, are linked in human parvovirus B19 infection. Parvovirus B19 infection causes choronic rheumatoid-like arthropathy. Autoantibody and low complement were seen in acute human parvovirus infection, and parvovirus B19 infection present clinically lupus like tableau.
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