| Human parvovirus B19, a member of the Parvoviridae family, is a pathogen associated with a wide variety of diseases. Most commonly, it causes childhood rash erythema infectiosum, but in some cases more serious symptoms such as persistent arthropathy, critical failures of red cell production causing transient aplastic crisis, this infection in pregnancy causes hydrops fetalis and myocarditis. Traditional immunosuppressive therapy being unsuccessful, anti-viral therapy might be worthy of consideration. Functional annotation would provide role of viral proteome in its survival and pathogenic mechanisms. SVMProt functional family annotations of VP2 protein had deciphered its zinc-binding, coat protein, outer membrane, chlorophyll biosynthesis, DNA repair and... |
