Congenital parvovirus infection

Arch Dis Child. 1991 Feb;66(2):253-4. doi: 10.1136/adc.66.2.253.

Abstract

A case of congenital parvovirus (B19) viraemia with associated thrombocytopenic purpura and platelet antigen incompatibility in an infant is reported. Results of laboratory investigations indicated that the baby was infected in utero.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antigens, Human Platelet*
  • Blood Platelets / immunology
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Integrin beta3
  • Isoantigens / analysis
  • Male
  • Parvoviridae Infections / complications
  • Parvoviridae Infections / congenital*
  • Parvoviridae Infections / immunology
  • Purpura, Thrombocytopenic / etiology

Substances

  • Antigens, Human Platelet
  • ITGB3 protein, human
  • Integrin beta3
  • Isoantigens