Genotyping of human parvovirus B19 in clinical samples from Brazil and Paraguay using heteroduplex mobility assay, single-stranded conformation polymorphism and nucleotide sequencing.

Heteroduplex mobility assay, single-stranded conformation polymorphism and nucleotide sequencing were utilised to genotype human parvovirus B19 samples from Brazil and Paraguay. Ninety-seven serum samples were collected from individuals presenting with abortion or erythema infectiosum, arthropathies, severe anaemia and transient aplastic crisis; two additional skin samples were collected by biopsy. After the procedure, all clinical samples were classified as genotype 1.

Heteroduplex mobility assay and single-stranded conformation polymorphism analysis as methodologies for detecting variants of human erythroviruses.

Variant samples from the three genotypes of erythroviruses have already been detected using sequencing as methodology for analysis. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of single-stranded conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis and heteroduplex mobility assay (HMA) as methodologies to detect human erythrovirus variants, using their VP1 unique region sequences. Clinical samples and plasmids of PVBAUA, A6, LaLi, V9Gh3051, and D91.