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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-9-20
pubmed:abstractText
The age-specific immunity to human parvovirus infection was estimated in Victoria, Australia using prospectively collected samples from the Royal Children's Hospital, the Royal Women's Hospital and the Australian Red Cross Blood Service and from sera stored at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL). All testing was performed at VIDRL using a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Biotrin). Of the 824 sera tested, 28% of those drawn from people aged 0-9 years contained protective antibodies to human parvovirus. This rose to 51% in the next decade of life. There was then a slow rise to about 78% immunity over 50 years of age. An analysis of all requests for parvovirus serology at VIDRL from 1992 to 1998 suggested that parvovirus tended to occur in 4-year cycles, with 2 epidemic years followed by 2 endemic years. A review of published reports of parvovirus immunity suggested that parvovirus infection may be more common, with a correspondingly higher proportion of the community immune, in temperate as opposed to tropical countries.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0950-2688
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
124
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
449-57
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-3-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Antibody Formation, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Australia, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Child, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Climate, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Parvoviridae Infections, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Parvovirus B19, Human, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Prevalence, pubmed-meshheading:10982069-Seasons
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
The age-specific prevalence of human parvovirus immunity in Victoria, Australia compared with other parts of the world.
pubmed:affiliation
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't