New Lineage of Lassa Virus, Togo, 2016
2018; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Volume: 24; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3201/eid2403.171905
ISSN1080-6059
AutoresShannon Whitmer, Thomas Strecker, Dániel Cadar, Hans‐Peter Dienes, Kelly Faber, Ketan Patel, Shelley Brown, William G. Davis, John D. Klena, Pierre E. Rollin, Jonas Schmidt‐Chanasit, Elisabeth Fichet‐Calvet, Bernd Noack, Petra Emmerich, Toni Rieger, Svenja Wolff, Sarah Katharina Fehling, Markus Eickmann, Jan Philipp Mengel, Tilman Schultze, Torsten Hain, William Ampofo, Kofi Bonney, Juliana Naa Dedei Aryeequaye, Bruce S. Ribner, Jay B. Varkey, Aneesh K. Mehta, G. Marshall Lyon, Gerrit Kann, Philipp de Leuw, Gundolf Schuettfort, Christoph Stephan, Ulrike Wieland, Jochen W.U. Fries, Matthias Kochanek, Colleen S. Kraft, Timo Wolf, Stuart T. Nichol, Stephan Becker, Ute Ströher, Stephan Günther,
Tópico(s)Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
ResumoWe 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.
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