Acute polyarthritis during a parvovirus B19 primary infection

Sane, F.; Lazrek, M.; Schanen, C.; Hober, C.; Dewilde, A.; Hober, D.

Annales de Biologie Clinique 64(5): 497-499

2006


ISSN/ISBN: 0003-3898
PMID: 17040883
Document Number: 597751
Parvovirus B19 classically causes erythema infectiosum in children, febrile arthralgia or acute erythroblastopenia in adult. The clinical spectrum of adult primary infection is sometimes misleading. We report an observation of an acute rheumatoid-like arthritis following primary parvovirus B19 infection in a 42-year-old woman.

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