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Nosocomial Outbreak of Novel Arenavirus Infection, Southern Africa

Overview
Journal Emerg Infect Dis
Specialty Infectious Diseases
Date 2009 Oct 29
PMID 19861052
Citations 63
Authors
Janusz T Paweska
Nivesh H Sewlall
Thomas G Ksiazek
Lucille H Blumberg
Martin J Hale
W Ian Lipkin
Jacqueline Weyer
Stuart T Nichol
Pierre E Rollin
Laura K McMullan
Christopher D Paddock
Thomas Briese
Joy Mnyaluza
Thu-Ha Dinh
Victor Mukonka
Pamela Ching
Adriano Duse
Guy Richards
Gillian de Jong
Cheryl Cohen
Bridget Ikalafeng
Charles Mugero
Chika Asomugha
Mirriam M Malotle
Dorothy M Nteo
Eunice Misiani
Robert Swanepoel
Sherif R Zaki
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Abstract

A nosocomial outbreak of disease involving 5 patients, 4 of whom died, occurred in South Africa during September-October 2008. The first patient had been transferred from Zambia to South Africa for medical management. Three cases involved secondary spread of infection from the first patient, and 1 was a tertiary infection. A novel arenavirus was identified. The source of the first patient's infection remains undetermined.

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