A woman showing chronic arthropathy after a parvovirus B19 infection was followed for 1 year with quantitative determination of parvoviral DNA, and specific immunoglobulin (Ig)M and IgG in blood. B19 arthopathy resulted in carpal tunnel syndrome, needing surgery, after 8 months of persistent B19 viraemia, when IgM was already cleared but IgG values were still high
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