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Serological Evidence of Lassa Virus Exposure in Non-Mastomys Small Mammals Within a Hyperendemic Region of North-Central Nigeria: A Pilot Study [PDF]

Viruses
Lassa fever (LF), a severe hemorrhagic disease endemic to West Africa, is primarily transmitted by rodents of the genus Mastomys, particularly Mastomys natalensis, which serve as the main reservoirs of Lassa virus (LASV).
Augustine Ovie Edegbene, Temidayo Oluwatosin Omotehinwa, Joseph Anejo-Okopi, Sara El Yaagoubi, Oladapo Sunday Shittu, Onyemocho Audu, Evangeline Olohi Abah, Samuel Ijoganu, Genesis Kwaghgande, Celina Aju-Ameh, Adesanya Abimbola, Emmanuel Otache, Emmanuel Ameh, Joyce Danyi, Owoicho Ikwu, Esther Agmdalo Malachi Cegbeyi, Oludare Oladipo Agboola, Joseph Okoeguale, Reuben Agbons Eifediyi, Ediga Bede Agbo, John Alechenu Idoko, Innocent Otoboh Achanya Ujah, Stephen Obekpa Abah   +22 more
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Impact of seasonal change on virus-rodent dynamics in Nigeria’s Edo-Ondo hotspot for Lassa fever [PDF]

Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases
The zoonotic Lassa virus (LASV) is naturally maintained in rodents but commonly virulent in humans, killing thousands across West Africa annually. Human cases of Lassa fever surge during the dry season.
Akinlabi Oyeyiola, Adetunji Samuel Adesina, Adeoba Obadare, Joseph Igbokwe, Samuel Ayobami Fasogbon, Chukwuyem Abejegah, Patience Akhilomen, Danny Asogun, Ekaete Tobin, Olufemi Ayodeji, Omolaja Osoniyi, Meike Pahlmann, Stephan Günther, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Ayodeji Olayemi   +14 more
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No measurable adverse effects of Lassa, Morogoro and Gairo arenaviruses on their rodent reservoir host in natural conditions

Parasites & Vectors, 2017
Background In order to optimize net transmission success, parasites are hypothesized to evolve towards causing minimal damage to their reservoir host while obtaining high shedding rates. For many parasite species however this paradigm has not been tested,
Joachim Mariën, Benny Borremans, Sophie Gryseels, Barré Soropogui, Luc De Bruyn, Gédéon Ngiala Bongo, Beate Becker-Ziaja, Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq, Stephan Günther, N’Faly Magassouba, Herwig Leirs, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet   +11 more
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Widespread arenavirus occurrence and seroprevalence in small mammals, Nigeria

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Background Lassa fever, killing thousands of people annually, is the most reported viral zoonotic disease in Nigeria. Recently, different rodent species carrying diverse lineages of the Lassa virus (LASV) in addition to a novel Mobala-like genetic ...
Ayodeji Olayemi, Akinlabi Oyeyiola, Adeoba Obadare, Joseph Igbokwe, Adetunji Samuel Adesina, Francis Onwe, Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Nnennaya Anthony Ajayi, Toni Rieger, Stephan Günther, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet   +10 more
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Detection of Lassa virus in wild rodent feces: Implications for Lassa fever burden within households in the endemic region of Faranah, Guinea

One Health, 2021
Lassa arenavirus (LASV) is the cause of Lassa Fever in humans in West Africa. The multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) is a reservoir host of LASV and the primary source of human infections.
Rebekah Wood, Umaru Bangura, Joachim Mariën, Moussa Douno, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet   +4 more
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Mastomys natalensis

, 2005
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 1189-1531 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1365, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo ...
Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
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Description of a new species of Heligmonina Baylis, 1928 (Nematoda: Heligmonellidae) a parasite of Mastomys natalensis (Rodentia: Muridae) from Swaziland and new data on the synlophe of Heligmonina chabaudi (Desset, 1966)

Parasite, 2007
A new species of heligmosomoid nematode belonging to the subfamily Nippostrongylinae Durette-Desset, 1970 is described: Heligmonina wakelini n. sp., a parasite from the small intestine of the commensal rodent Mastomys natalensis (Smith, 1834) from ...
Durette-Desset M.C., Digiani M.C., Mahlaba T., Behnke J.M.   +3 more
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Mastomys natalensis

, 1993
{"references": ["Skinner, J. D., and R. H. N. Smithers. 1990. The mammals of the southern African subregion. Second ed. University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 771 pp.", "Leirs, H., W. Verheyen, M. Michiels, R. Verhagen, and J. Stuyck. 1989. The relation between rainfall and the breeding season of Mastomys natalensis (Smith, 1834) in Morogoro,
Guy G. Musser, Michael D. Carleton
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Lassa Virus Circulation in Small Mammal Populations in Bo District, Sierra Leone

Biology, 2021
Lassa fever is a viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus LASV, which was first isolated in the rodent Mastomys natalensis in 1974 in Kenema, Sierra Leone.
Umaru Bangura, Jacob Buanie, Joyce Lamin, Christopher Davis, Gédéon Ngiala Bongo, Michael Dawson, Rashid Ansumana, Dianah Sondufu, Emma C. Thomson, Foday Sahr, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet   +10 more
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Mastomys natalensis

, 2017
Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Muridae, pp. 536-884 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 806, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo ...
Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr   +2 more
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