1. Parvovirus B19 causes severe anemia because it preferentially infects erythrocyte precursors
2.Parvovirus B19 can cause hydrops fetalis via transplacental infection of a fetus in a seropositive mother
3.Parvovirus B19 can be diagnosed by detection of viral RNA using PCR or hybridization assays
4.Parvovirus B19 replicates in the host cell nucleus utilizing a virally encoded DNA polymerase to create a double- stranded DNA intermediate