How Chikungunya Virus May Cause Chronic Joint Pain (IMAGE)

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How Chikungunya Virus May Cause Chronic Joint Pain

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Representative image of frozen section of whole ankle taken at 28 days post infection from reporter mice (tdTomato mice) infected with 106 PFU CHIKV-3?-Cre. Blue shows DAPI staining and red shows tdTomato. The tdTomato cells survive CHIKV infection and harbor the persistent CHIKV RNA. Scale bar represents 1000 ?m.

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Young AR, et al. (2019)

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