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Lentivirus infection augments concurrent antigen-induced arthritis
K L Banks1, C A Jacobs, F H Michaels
1Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164.
Arthritis and Rheumatism
|September 1, 1987
Abstract:
Experimental antigen-induced arthritis was compared in normal goats and goats infected with caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus. Although acute arthritis was the same in infected and uninfected animals, the disease lasted 16 weeks longer in the caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus-infected goats. Our findings suggest that the arthritis caused by this virus is due to events other than, or in addition to, the immune reaction to viral antigens.