Mastomys Natalensis and Lassa Fever, West Africa

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2007 Mar 1

PMID 17326956

Citations 105

Authors

Emilie Lecompte

Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet

Stephane Daffis

Kekoura Koulemou

Oumar Sylla

Fode Kourouma

Amadou Dore

Barre Soropogui

Vladimir Aniskin

Bernard Allali

Stephane Kouassi Kan

Aude Lalis

Lamine Koivogui

Stephan Gunther

Christiane Denys

Jan Ter Meulen

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Abstract

PCR screening of 1,482 murid rodents from 13 genera caught in 18 different localities of Guinea, West Africa, showed Lassa virus infection only in molecularly typed Mastomys natalensis. Distribution of this rodent and relative abundance compared with M. erythroleucus correlates geographically with Lassa virus seroprevalence in humans.

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