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Large-scale Lassa fever outbreaks in Nigeria: quantifying the association between disease reproduction number and local rainfall

Lassa fever (LF) is increasingly recognised as an important rodent-borne viral haemorrhagic fever presenting a severe public health threat to sub-Saharan West Africa. In 2017–18, LF caused an unprecedented epidemic in Nigeria and the situation was worsening in 2018–19. This work aims to study the ep...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Shi, Musa, Salihu S., Fu, Hao, He, Daihai, Qin, Jing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7019145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31918780
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268819002267