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
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• 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
  • Rna, Viral
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
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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
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16443/cdc_16443_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 177.02 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b8391ac2ed624780a134d1e440a95bccde392d8973c2f15295e0fb37e6d974b8