New Hosts of The Lassa Virus

New Hosts of The Lassa Virus

Lassa virus (LASV) causes a deadly haemorrhagic fever in humans, killing several thousand people in West Africa annually. For 40 years, the Natal multimammate rat, Mastomys natalensis, has been assumed to be the sole host of LASV. We found evidence that LASV is also hosted by other rodent species: t...

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Main Authors: Olayemi, Ayodeji, Cadar, Daniel, Magassouba, N’Faly, Obadare, Adeoba, Kourouma, Fode, Oyeyiola, Akinlabi, Fasogbon, Samuel, Igbokwe, Joseph, Rieger, Toni, Bockholt, Sabrina, Jérôme, Hanna, Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas, Garigliany, Mutien, Lorenzen, Stephan, Igbahenah, Felix, Fichet, Jean-Nicolas, Ortsega, Daniel, Omilabu, Sunday, Günther, Stephan, Fichet-Calvet, Elisabeth
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4853722/

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