| long-term arthralgia after mayaro virus infection correlates with sustained pro-inflammatory cytokine response. | mayaro virus (mayv), an alphavirus similar to chikungunya virus (chikv), causes an acute debilitating disease which results in the development of long-term arthralgia in more than 50% of infected individuals. currently, the immune response and its role in the development of mayv-induced persistent arthralgia remain unknown. in this study, we evaluated the immune response of individuals with confirmed mayv infection in a one-year longitudinal study carried out in loreto, peru. we report that mayv ... | 2015 | 26496497 |