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Parvovirus infection and anaemia in a patient with AIDS: case report
S A Mitchell1, J M Welch, S Weston-Smith
1Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine, St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, London.
Genitourinary Medicine
|April 1, 1990
Abstract:
Opportunistic infections such as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia are well-recognised in patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Anaemia due to a variety of causes also occurs in AIDS. Persistent infection with parvovirus (B19) causing severe anaemia has been reported in patients with leukaemia and congenital immunodeficiency. A case is now reported of parvovirus infection and anaemia, in an adult with AIDS, which responded dramatically to immunoglobulin therapy.