Mastomys natalensis and Lassa Fever, West Africa

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Lecompte, Emilie ; Fichet-Calvet, Elisabeth ; Daffis, Stéphane ; Koulémou, Kékoura ; Sylla, Oumar ; Kourouma, Fodé ; Doré, Amadou ; Soropogui, Barré ; Aniskin, Vladimir ; Allali, Bernard ; Kan, Stéphane Kouassi ; Lalis, Aude ; Koivogui, Lamine ; Günther, Stephan ; Denys, Christiane ; ter Meulen, Jan
• Description:
  PCR screening of 1,482 murid rodents from 13 genera caught in 18 different localities of Guinea, West Africa, showed Lassa virus infection only in molecularly typed Mastomys natalensis. Distribution of this rodent and relative abundance compared with M. erythroleucus correlates geographically with Lassa virus seroprevalence in humans.
• Subjects:
  Amino Acid Sequence Animals Base Sequence Hospitals, Rural Lassa Fever Molecular Sequence Data Murinae Phylogeny Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Rna, Viral Rodent Diseases Sequence Analysis, DNA

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 12(12):1971-1974.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Guinea
• Location:
  Guinea
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b8391ac2ed624780a134d1e440a95bccde392d8973c2f15295e0fb37e6d974b8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16443/cdc_16443_DS1.pdf
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