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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2025

Fulminant parvovirus B19 myocarditis in infants -report of three post-pandemic cases.

Tatjana Wahjudi, Alex Nitsch, Jan-Peter Sperhake, Peter H Hoeger

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Article in European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 authors.

Tatjana WahjudiDepartment of Paediatrics, Catholic Children´s Hospital Wilhelmstift, Liliencronstr 130, 22149, Hamburg, Germany.
Alex NitschDept. of Intensive Care/Paediatric Cardiology, Catholic Children´s Hospital Wilhelmstift, Liliencronstr 130, 22149, Hamburg, Germany.
Jan-Peter SperhakeInstitute of Legal Medicine, University Medical Center, Martinistr. 52, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Peter H HoegerDepartment of Paediatrics, Catholic Children´s Hospital Wilhelmstift, Liliencronstr 130, 22149, Hamburg, Germany. hoeger@kkh-wilhelmstift.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3268-7479

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lack of immune stimulation ("immune debt") in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a resurgence of many paediatric infectious diseases, recently including parvovirus B19 (PVB19). We observed three cases of fulminant PVB19 myocarditis in infants. All had experienced a short prodromal illness and succumbed to cardiogenic shock within 2-72 h after admission. The risk of fulminant myocarditis appears to be increased in infants. Further studies are needed to assess the incidence of fulminant myocarditis caused by PVB19, potentially linked to immune debt.

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MyocarditisParvoviridae InfectionsParvovirus B19, HumanCOVID-19Fatal OutcomeHumansInfantSARS-CoV-2Fulminant“immune debt”MyocarditisParvovirus B19 virus

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