Parvovirus

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Parvovirus, usually abbreviated to parvo, is a genus of the family Parvoviridae. Parvoviruses are non-segmented DNA viruses, with an average size of 5000 base pairs per genome. Parvoviruses are some of the smallest viruses found in nature (hence the name, from Latin parvus = small). Some have been found with a reduced size of 23 nm.