Persistent parvovirus B19 viremia with chronic arthralgia treated with ascorbic acid: a case report

INTRODUCTION: According to some studies, ascorbic acid possesses antiviral properties. These studies were mainly focused on the common cold, with very few focusing on other viral infections. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 54-year-old Caucasian woman with chronic arthralgia due to persist...

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Autores principales: Lallement, Aloys, Zandotti, Christine, Brouqui, Philippe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25560323
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-9-1
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description INTRODUCTION: According to some studies, ascorbic acid possesses antiviral properties. These studies were mainly focused on the common cold, with very few focusing on other viral infections. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 54-year-old Caucasian woman with chronic arthralgia due to persistent parvovirus B19 viremia. High doses of ascorbic acid treatment were initiated due to the failure of conventional analgesic therapy. Clinical benefit was observed with a simultaneous loss of biological parvovirus B19 viremia. CONCLUSIONS: This observation shows a potential benefit of the use of ascorbic acid against parvovirus B19 infections, even if this case is not sufficient to draw any definite conclusions.
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spelling pubmed-43261922015-02-13 Persistent parvovirus B19 viremia with chronic arthralgia treated with ascorbic acid: a case report Lallement, Aloys Zandotti, Christine Brouqui, Philippe J Med Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: According to some studies, ascorbic acid possesses antiviral properties. These studies were mainly focused on the common cold, with very few focusing on other viral infections. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 54-year-old Caucasian woman with chronic arthralgia due to persistent parvovirus B19 viremia. High doses of ascorbic acid treatment were initiated due to the failure of conventional analgesic therapy. Clinical benefit was observed with a simultaneous loss of biological parvovirus B19 viremia. CONCLUSIONS: This observation shows a potential benefit of the use of ascorbic acid against parvovirus B19 infections, even if this case is not sufficient to draw any definite conclusions. BioMed Central 2015-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4326192/ /pubmed/25560323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-9-1 Text en © Lallement et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Persistent parvovirus B19 viremia with chronic arthralgia treated with ascorbic acid: a case report
title Persistent parvovirus B19 viremia with chronic arthralgia treated with ascorbic acid: a case report
title_full Persistent parvovirus B19 viremia with chronic arthralgia treated with ascorbic acid: a case report
title_fullStr Persistent parvovirus B19 viremia with chronic arthralgia treated with ascorbic acid: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Persistent parvovirus B19 viremia with chronic arthralgia treated with ascorbic acid: a case report
title_short Persistent parvovirus B19 viremia with chronic arthralgia treated with ascorbic acid: a case report
title_sort persistent parvovirus b19 viremia with chronic arthralgia treated with ascorbic acid: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25560323
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-9-1
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