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- Title
New Lineage of Lassa Virus, Togo, 2016.
- Authors
Whitmer, Shannon L. M.; Strecker, Thomas; Cadar, Daniel; Dienes, Hans-Peter; Faber, Kelly; Patel, Ketan; Brown, Shelley M.; Davis, William G.; Klena, John D.; Rollin, Pierre E.; Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas; Fichet-Calvet, Elisabeth; Noack, Bernd; Emmerich, Petra; Rieger, Toni; Wolff, Svenja; Fehling, Sarah Katharina; Eickmann, Markus; Mengel, Jan Philipp; Schultze, Tilman
- Abstract
We describe a strain of Lassa virus representing a putative new lineage that was isolated from a cluster of human infections with an epidemiologic link to Togo. This finding extends the known range of Lassa virus to Togo.
- Subjects
TOGO; LASSA fever virus; PHYLOGENY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LINEAGE; NUCLEOPROTEINS; ANIMAL experimentation; COMPARATIVE studies; BIOLOGICAL evolution; GENES; HISTORY; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; PRIMATES; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; RNA viruses; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018, Vol 24, Issue 3, p599
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
historical material
- DOI
10.3201/eid2403.171905