New Lineage of Lassa Virus, Togo, 2016

Autor: Stephan Becker, Shannon L.M. Whitmer, Pierre E. Rollin, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Ute Ströher, Markus Eickmann, Shelley M. Brown, Bruce S. Ribner, Gundolf Schuettfort, Petra Emmerich, Philipp de Leuw, Kofi Bonney, Juliana Naa Dedei Aryeequaye, Jan Philipp Mengel, Matthias Kochanek, Svenja Wolff, Daniel Cadar, Colleen S. Kraft, Sarah Katharina Fehling, Torsten Hain, Gerrit Kann, Bernd Noack, Tilman Schultze, Christoph Stephan, Toni Rieger, Aneesh K. Mehta, Hans-Peter Dienes, Ketan Patel, Stephan Günther, Jay B. Varkey, Ulrike Wieland, William G. Davis, Stuart T. Nichol, Timo Wolf, William Ampofo, John D. Klena, G. Marshall Lyon, Kelly Faber, Jochen W.U. Fries, Thomas Strecker, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 24, Iss 3, Pp 599-602 (2018)
ISSN: 1080-6059
1080-6040
Popis: 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE