Human parvovirus B19 infection in infancy associated with acute and chronic lymphocytic myocarditis and high cytokine levels: Report of 3 cases and review

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-69

  Nigro, G ^a   Bastianon, V ^a   Colloridi, V ^a   Ventriglia, F ^a   Gallo, P ^a   D'Amati, G ^a   Koch, W C ^a   Adler, S P ^a  

^a Box 163 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VIRUS DNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHEMA INFECTIOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; NEWBORN; PARVOVIRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOKINES; DNA, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; MYOCARDITIS; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS B19, HUMAN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0034456469     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313929     Document Type: Article

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