| viremic blood donor found by a rapid screening method in a season of high human parvovirus b19 activity in niterói, rio de janeiro, brazil. | erythrovirus b19 infection is usually benign but may have serious consequences in patients with hemolytic anemia (transient aplastic crisis), immunodeficiency (in whom persistent infection can lead to chronic bone marrow failure with anemia), or who are in the first or second trimester of gestation (spontaneous abortion, hydrops fetalis, and fetal death). being non-enveloped, b19 resists most inactivation methods and can be transmitted by transfusion. b19 is difficult to cultivate and native vir ... | 2004 | 15057355 |