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New Hosts of The Lassa Virus.

Scientific reports - 3 May 2016

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

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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: the African wood mouse Hylomyscus pamfi in Nigeria, and the Guinea multimammate mouse Mastomys erythroleucus in both...

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PMID: 27140942
DOI: 10.1038/srep25280
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