TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Human Parvovirus A1 - Vijayan, Vini A2 - Kline, Mark W. PY - 2018 T2 - Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e AB - Human parvovirus (HPV) B19 was first discovered in 1975 by Cossart and colleagues while screening healthy blood bank donors’ sera. HPV B19 is a small (20–25 nm), single-stranded, nonenveloped DNA virus of the family Parvoviridae, genus Erythrovirus. It is the infectious agent of a number of clinical syndromes (eg, erythema infectiosum) and can cause intrauterine infection of the fetus as well. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182903686 ER -