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Prevalence of Parvovirus B19 and Human Bocavirus DNA in the Heart of Patients with no Evidence of Dilated Cardiomyopathy or Myocarditis
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 11/04/09

Kuethe F et al. – These data suggest that B19V but not HBoV demonstrates a lifelong persistence in the heart. The detection of B19V DNA in heart tissue showed no correlation with clinical symptoms. The authors strongly recommend that serological testing become a standardized procedure for future studies, to obtain representative data concerning the prevalence of B19V in the heart.

The small 11kDa non-structural protein of human parvovirus B19 plays a key role in inducing apoptosis during B19 virus infection of primary erythroid progenitor cells
Blood, 11/12/09 Relevance Score: 87%

Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences of Human Parvovirus B19 Genome Reveals Two Different Modes of Evolution, a Gradual Alteration and a Sudden Replacement: a Retrospective Study in Sapporo, Japan, from 1980 to 2008
Journal of Virology, 10/19/09 Relevance Score: 87%

Detection of bocavirus in saliva of children with and without respiratory illness
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 10/08/09 Relevance Score: 87%

Substrate-Specific Derangements in Mitochondrial Metabolism and Redox Balance in the Atrium of the Type 2 Diabetic Human Heart
JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 11/09/09 Relevance Score: 82%

CryoLife Receives Humanitarian Use Device Designation for SynerGraft(R) Processed Human Aortic Heart Valves
Cryolife, 10/07/09 Relevance Score: 82%