Antibodies against Parvovirus B19 in Sera of 17–34-year-old Women
Authors:
A. Petrovičová
Authors‘ workplace:
Oddelenie virológie, Ústav preventívnej a klinickej medicíny, Bratislava
Published in:
Epidemiol. Mikrobiol. Imunol. , 1999, č. 1, s. 8-10
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Overview
In order to assess the proportion of women in fertile age who lack antibodies against parvovirusB19 the authors assessed in 2 groups of sera (63 and 40 sera) taken from 17–34-year-old womenantibodies against this virus by the ELISA method (Seiken). Virus-specific antibodies, class IgG weredetected only in 67% of the examined subjects which indicates that in one third of the women thereis a risk of transplacental infection of the foetus in case of infection with the parvovirus B19 duringpregnancy.
Key words:
parvovirus B19 – risk of transplacental transmission.
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Hygiene and epidemiology Medical virology Clinical microbiologyArticle was published in
Epidemiology, Microbiology, Immunology
1999 Issue 1
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