Dermal and muscle fibroblasts and skeletal myofibers survive chikungunya virus infection and harbor persistent RNA

• Alissa R. Young ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alissa R. Young, Marissa C. Locke

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9949-7472

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• Marissa C. Locke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alissa R. Young, Marissa C. Locke

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8086-9958

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• Lindsey E. Cook,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7558-618X

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• Bradley E. Hiller,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6179-994X

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• Rong Zhang,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Matthew L. Hedberg,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2810-9724

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• Kristen J. Monte,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Deborah J. Veis,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Shriners Hospitals for Children–St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7101-5582

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• Michael S. Diamond,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8791-3165

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• Deborah J. Lenschow

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dlenschow@wustl.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9400-5309

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