Parvovirus B19 (B19 virus) was the first (and, until 2005, only) human
parvovirus to be discovered, by chance in
1975 by the
Australian virologist Yvonne Cossart. It gained its name because it was discovered in well B19 of a large series of petri dishes apparently numbered in this way. Parvovirus B19 is best known for causing a childhood
exanthem called
fifth disease or erythema infectiosum.
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