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Fifth Disease - Virus

This electron micrograph depicts a number of parvovirus H-1 virions of the Parvoviridae family of DNA viruses. The Parvoviridae family of viruses also contains the Parvovirus B19 virion, which is responsible for causing erythema infectiosum, or “Fifth Disease”.

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