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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Autores principales: 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
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4853722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27140942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep25280

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4853722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27140942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep25280

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