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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Whitmer, Shannon L.M. ; Strecker, Thomas ; Cadar, Daniel ; Dienes, Hans-Peter ; Faber, Kelly ; ... More +
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 ; Less -
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.
Subject:
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Animals
Cercopithecus Aethiops
Genes, Viral
History, 21st Century
Humans
Lassa Fever
Lassa Virus
Phylogeny
Research Letter
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 ;
Place as Subject:
Togo ;
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:057a150d9ec4556a5b73bee6fbc05adb3adaa6d04226ea1a15ac384e875be07f
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