Seroprevalence of Ebola virus infection in Bombali District, Sierra Leone [PDF]
, 2017 A serosurvey of anti-Ebola Zaire virus nucleoprotein IgG prevalence was carried out among Ebola virus disease survivors and their Community Contacts in Bombali District, Sierra Leone. Our data suggest that the specie of Ebola virus (Zaire) responsible of
Antonella Minutolo +13 more
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Partitioning Social and Spatial Drivers of Infection Risk
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 11, November 2025.Contact rates drive disease spread, yet are often oversimplified as uniform across individuals. Using data on Mastomys natalensis, we show that exposure to Morogoro virus is linked to spatial overlap with infected conspecifics, but not overall overlap, and that direct contact occurs with only a few individuals despite broad home range overlap ...
L. Kirkpatrick +4 more
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Rat-atouille: A Mixed Method Study to Characterize Rodent Hunting and Consumption in the Context of Lassa Fever [PDF]
, 2016 Lassa fever is a zoonotic hemorrhagic illness predominant in areas across Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, and southern Mali. The reservoir of Lassa virus is the multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis), a highly commensal species in West Africa ...
Almudena Mari Saez +8 more
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An evaluative scientometric assessment of emerging Lassa virus research in the post-COVID era
Discover Public HealthLassa virus is a tropical zoonotic pathogen which has become a major cause of concern in the last five decades. The objective of this study was to provide a comprehensive scientometric analysis of global research on Lassa virus to elucidate influential ...
Arindam Ganguly +6 more
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Mastomys natalensis and Lassa Fever, West Africa
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 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.
Emilie Lecompte +15 more
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Ebola virus infection among western healthcare workers unable to recall the transmission route [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction. During the 2014-2016 West-African Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, some HCWs from Western countries became infected despite proper equipment and training on EVD infection prevention and control (IPC) standards.
Messano, GIUSEPPE ALESSIO +3 more
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An Agent-Based Spatially Explicit Epidemiological Model in MASON [PDF]
This paper outlines the design and implementation of an agent-based epidemiological simulation system. The system was implemented in the MASON toolkit, a set of Java-based agent-simulation libraries.
Jill Bigley Dunham
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Lassa fever in West African sub-region: an overview [PDF]
Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, 2007 Lassa fever is an acute viral zoonotic illness caused by Lassa virus, an arenavirus known to beresponsible for a severe haemorrhagic fever characterised by fever, muscle aches, sore throat, nausea,vomiting and, chest and abdominal pain.
O. Ogbu, E. Ajuluchukwu, C.J. Uneke
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Outbreak of lassa fever in Nigeria: measures for prevention and control
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016 Lassa fever, an acute viral haemorrhagic fever, extremely virulent and often infectious, occurs very frequently in different parts of Nigeria [1-4] and affects approximately 100,000-500,000 persons per year in West Africa.
Kehinde Charles Mofolorunsho
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Post-translational processing of the glycoproteins of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus. [PDF]
, 1990 Intracellular events in the synthesis, glycosylation, and transport of the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) glycoproteins have been examined. We have shown by N-glycanase digestion that LCMV strain Arm-4 bears five oligosaccharides on GP-1 and ...
Buchmeier, MJ +3 more
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