Cargando…
Determining Ancestry between Rodent- and Human-Derived Virus Sequences in Endemic Foci: Towards a More Integral Molecular Epidemiology of Lassa Fever within West Africa
Lassa fever is a viral hemorrhagic illness responsible for thousands of human deaths in West Africa yearly. Rodents are known as natural reservoirs of the causative Lassa mammarenavirus (LASV) while humans are regarded as incidental, spill-over hosts. Analysis of genetic sequences continues to add t...
Autores principales: | Olayemi, Ayodeji, Adesina, Adetunji Samuel, Strecker, Thomas, Magassouba, N’Faly, Fichet-Calvet, Elisabeth |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
MDPI
2020
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7167862/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32046182 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology9020026 |
Ejemplares similares
-
Hunting and consumption of rodents by children in the Lassa fever endemic area of Faranah, Guinea
por: Douno, Moussa, et al.
Publicado: (2021) -
Correction: Hunting and consumption of rodents by children in the Lassa fever endemic area of Faranah, Guinea
por: Douno, Moussa, et al.
Publicado: (2023) -
Evaluation of rodent control to fight Lassa fever based on field data and mathematical modelling
por: Mariën, Joachim, et al.
Publicado: (2019) -
Households as hotspots of Lassa fever? Assessing the spatial distribution of Lassa virus-infected rodents in rural villages of Guinea
por: Mariën, Joachim, et al.
Publicado: (2020) -
Domestic risk factors for increased rodent abundance in a Lassa fever endemic region of rural Upper Guinea
por: Clark, Julia, et al.
Publicado: (2021)