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ArticleCureus2020

Parvovirus B19 Infection Mimicking Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia in an Immunocompetent Child.

Aji Mathew, Walid Abuhammour, Basil Fathalla, Bosaina Otour

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Article in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aji MathewPediatric Pulmonology, Al Jalila Children Hospital, Dubai, ARE.
Walid AbuhammourInfectious Diseases, Al Jalila Children's Speciality Hospital, Dubai, ARE.
Basil FathallaRheumatology, Al Jalila Children's Speciality Hospital, Dubai, ARE.
Bosaina OtourPaediatrics, Al Jalila Children's Speciality Hospital, Dubai, ARE.
Al Jalila Foundation · AE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most of the parvovirus infections in humans are benign. Clinical manifestations of parvovirus B19 infections in children vary from erythema infectiosum in healthy children to aplastic crisis in patients with hematological disorders (such as sickle cell disease) and immunocompromised patients. Parvovirus B19 infects the erythroid progenitor cell in the bone marrow and causes transient erythroblastopenia. Transient leukoerythroblastic reaction is a rare presentation of parvovirus infection. Our case is a child presenting with fever of unknown origin (FUO) who was investigated and treated in different hospitals for FUO. He was investigated for infections, rheumatological causes, and malignancies. Clinical manifestations and bone marrow findings were mimicking juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) but eventually diagnosed to have a parvovirus B19 infection, which resolved spontaneously in due course.

Indexed as

juvenile myelomonocytic leukemiaparvovirus b19

Identifiers

PMID32754395
PMCPMC7386081
OpenAlexW3038117584

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