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ArticleTransfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie2014

Parvovirus b19 infections and blood counts in blood donors.

David Juhl, Dagmar Steppat, Siegfried Görg, Holger Hennig

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Article in Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Human Parvoviruses.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2017
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  6. Prevalence and Viral Load of Human Parvovirus B19 (B19V) Among Blood Donors in South-East Brazil.Indian journal of hematology & blood transfusion : an official journal of Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

David JuhlInstitute of Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck/Kiel, Germany.
Dagmar SteppatInstitute of Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck/Kiel, Germany.
Siegfried GörgInstitute of Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck/Kiel, Germany.
Holger HennigInstitute of Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck/Kiel, Germany.
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein · DEUniversity of Lübeck · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesParvovirus B19 (B19V) is a transfusion-transmissible virus. To obtain data about the prevalence, incidence, the course of B19V infection in blood donors and whether B19V might impair their blood counts, samples from blood donors with B19V infection were investigated.

methodsBlood donations were screened for B19V DNA using the Cobas TaqScreen DPX Test® in mini-pools. B19V DNA concentration, anti-B19V IgG antibody titer and blood counts were determined in positive donors.

results157/23,889 (0.66%) donors provided 347 B19V DNA-positive samples. Prevalence of B19V infection was 0.45%, incidence 0.20%. B19V DNA concentrations were predominantly low; only in 8 samples were viral loads of ≥10(5) IU B19V DNA/ml plasma detectable. Besides a slight decrease in hemoglobin, hematocrit, mean corpuscular volume, mean cellular hemoglobin and mean hemoglobin concentration, no major differences in blood counts occurred in B19V DNA-positive samples. In samples with a low B19V DNA concentration, anti-B19V IgG titers were rather high. 98 donors provided at least 1 B19V DNA-positive follow-up sample, indicating a prolonged viremia.

conclusionsB19V infection induced no major impairment in the blood counts. In donors with low-level viremia, infectivity through their donations is probably reduced by high antibody titers. Low-level viremia is prolonged, probably exceeding 1 year in many cases.

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B19V DNAB19V infectionBlood donorParvovirus B19

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PMCPMC3949617
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