Abstract
The presence of the novel parvovirus PARV4 and a related variant, PARV5, was recently demonstrated in pooled plasma used in the manufacture of blood and plasma-derived medicinal products. DNA sequence analysis of nearly full-length genomes of four PARV4 and two PARV5 strains from manufacturing plasma pools is now presented. Like PARV4, PARV5 encodes two non-overlapping open reading frames (ORF1 and ORF2), homologous to the non-structural and capsid proteins of other parvoviruses, respectively. A highly conserved region in ORF2 contains phospholipase A2 motifs involved in parvovirus infectivity. Hybridization of strand-specific probes to DNA extracted from high-titre, PARV4-positive plasma revealed that the positive and negative strands are packaged into PARV4 virions in similar quantities. This extended analysis of nearly full-length PARV4 and PARV5 sequences suggests that they are closely related genotypes and the use of a single virus name, PARV4, comprising genotypes 1 and 2 (previously termed PARV5) is proposed.
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