Boosting understanding of Lassa Fever virus epidemiology: Field testing a novel assay to identify past Lassa Fever virus infection in blood and oral fluids of survivors and unexposed controls in Sierra Leone

BACKGROUND: Despite identification 50 years ago, the true burden of Lassa Fever (LF) across Africa remains undefined for reasons including research focus on hospitalised patients, lack of validated field-feasible tools which reliably identify past infection, and the fact that all assays require bloo...

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Autores principales: Akpogheneta, Onome, Dicks, Steve, Grant, Donald, Kanneh, Zainab, Jusu, Brima, Edem-Hotah, Joseph, Kanneh, Lansana, Alhasan, Foday, Gbakie, Michael, Schieffelin, John, Ijaz, Samreen, Tedder, Richard, Bower, Hilary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8041174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33788861
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009255

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8041174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33788861
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009255

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