Acute human parvovirus B-19 infection in hospitalized children: A serologic and molecular survey

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 898-901

  Miron, Dan ^a,b   Luder, Anthony ^b,c   Horovitz, Yoseph ^a,b   Izkovitz, Andrey ^a   Shizgreen, Irena ^c   David, Eliel Ben ^d,e   Ohnona, Frederic S ^d   Schlesinger, Yechiel ^d,e  

^a HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Rebecca Sieff Government Hospital   (Israel)

^d SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aplastic; Arthropathy; Exanthema; Hospitalized children; Parvovirus B19

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INFANT; ISRAEL; LEUKOPENIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MONONUCLEOSIS; PANCYTOPENIA; PARVOVIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RASH; SEROLOGY; SYNOVITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARTHRITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; PANCYTOPENIA; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS B19, HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 33749425380     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000237865.01251.d2     Document Type: Article

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