Rubella Virus and Chronic Joint Disease: Is There an Association?
AUTOR(ES)
Bosma, Trent J.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Synovial fluid samples and/or biopsies from 79 patients with various chronic inflammatory joint diseases or traumatic joint injury were tested for rubella virus (RV) in order to confirm or refute results from other studies that suggested RV as a cause of chronic inflammatory joint disease. Sixty-eight of the 72 patients tested had RV antibodies. RV RNA was detected by reverse transcription-PCR in the synovial fluid cells from two patients. RV was also isolated by cell culture from the synovial fluid of one of these two patients. This patient was a 42-year-old female with common variable immune deficiency and Mycoplasma hominis arthritis, while the other was a 68-year-old female with rheumatoid arthritis. While these results fail to confirm that RV is associated with chronic inflammatory joint disease, they suggest that RV may persist within a joint and be reactivated when cell-mediated immunity is suppressed.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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