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  • Abstract Number: 2837 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017

    Cross-Sectional Analysis of Chikungunya Arthritis Patients 22-Months Post-Infection Demonstrates a Lack of Viral Persistence in Synovial Fluid

    Aileen Chang1, Karen Martins* Contributed equally2, Liliana Encinales3, St. Patrick Reid4, Marlon Acuña3, Carlos Encinales3, Christian Matranga5, Nelly Pacheco3, Carlos Cure3, Bhavarth Shukla6, Teofilo Arteta Ruiz3, Richard Amdur7, Lisa Cazares8, Melissa Gregory8, Michael Ward8, Alexandra Porras9, Alejandro Rico Mendoza9, Lian Dong8, Tara Kenny8, Ernie Brueggemann8, Lydia Downey8, Priyanka Kamalapathy7, Paola Lichtenberger6, Orlando Falls3, Gary Simon7, Jeffrey Bethony7 and Gary S. Firestein10, 1Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Disease, Frederick, MD, 3Allied Research Society, Baranquilla, Colombia, 4University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, 5Broad Institute, Boston, MA, 6University of Miami, Miami, FL, 7George Washington University, Washington, DC, 8United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease, Frederick, MD, 9Allied Research Society, Bogota, Colombia, 10Medicine, UCSD, La Jolla, CA

    Background/Purpose: Chikungunya virus infection is a mosquito-borne disease that causes chronic joint pain for months to years in approximately one half of infected patients. The…

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