Human parvovirus infection and aplastic crisis in hereditary spherocytosis.
This report records an episode of parvovirus-induced bone-marrow aplasia in a child with hereditary spherocytosis and arising during a local outbreak of erythema infectiosum (fifth disease or 'slapped-cheek syndrome'). Inapparent infection was found in two haematologically normal family contacts.
D000741:Anemia, Aplastic / Q000209:etiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004890:Erythema / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010322:Parvoviridae Infections / Q000150:complications*; D013103:Spherocytosis, Hereditary / Q000150:complications*