New Lineage of Lassa Virus, Togo, 2016

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Whitmer, Shannon L.M. ; Strecker, Thomas ; Cadar, Daniel ; Dienes, Hans-Peter ; Faber, Kelly ; Patel, Ketan ; Brown, Shelley M. ; Davis, William G. ; Klena, John D. ; Rollin, Pierre E. ; Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas ; Fichet-Calvet, Elisabeth ; Noack, Bernd ; Emmerich, Petra ; Rieger, Toni ; Wolff, Svenja ; Fehling, Sarah Katharina ; Eickmann, Markus ; Mengel, Jan Philipp ; Schultze, Tilman ; Hain, Torsten ; Ampofo, William ; Bonney, Kofi ; Aryeequaye, Juliana Naa Dedei ; Ribner, Bruce ; Varkey, Jay B. ; Mehta, Aneesh K. ; Lyon, G. Marshall ; Kann, Gerrit ; De Leuw, Philipp ; Schuettfort, Gundolf ; Stephan, Christoph ; Wieland, Ulrike ; Fries, Jochen W.U. ; Kochanek, Matthias ; Kraft, Colleen S. ; Wolf, Timo ; Nichol, Stuart T. ; Becker, Stephan ; Ströher, Ute ; Günther, Stephan
• Description:
  We describe a strain of Lassa virus representing a putative new lineage that was isolated from a cluster of human infections with an epidemiologic link to Togo. This finding extends the known range of Lassa virus to Togo.
• Subjects:
  Animals Cercopithecus Aethiops Genes, Viral History, 21St Century Humans Lassa Fever Lassa Virus Phylogeny Vero Cells
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 24(3):599-602.
• Pubmed ID:
  29460758
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5823357
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  UL1 TR000454/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
• Genre:
  Historical Article ; Letter
• Place as Subject:
  Togo
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:057a150d9ec4556a5b73bee6fbc05adb3adaa6d04226ea1a15ac384e875be07f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/52206/cdc_52206_DS1.pdf
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