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Evaluation of a Luminex‐Based Multiplex Immunoassay of Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses in Senegal

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Given the growing threat posed by viral hemorrhagic fevers, the development of surveillance tools is crucial to provide accurate and rapid solutions. Public health response involves risk assessment as well as effective and sustainable surveillance to ensure downstream communication and preparedness. A serological approach that offers high precision and
Safietou Sankhe, Maryam Diarra, Mamadou Aliou Barry, Martin Faye, Cheikh Talla, Diogop Camara, Maimouna Mbanne, Pape Mbacke Sembene, Amadou Alpha Sall, Gamou Fall, Oumar Faye, Cheikh Loucoubar, Ousmane Faye, Ines Vigan-Womas, Keersten Michelle Ricks, Jessica Radzio-Basu, Moussa Moise Diagne, Leyi Wang   +17 more
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Toxoplasma gondii and Trypanosoma lewisi Infection in Urban Small Mammals From Cotonou, Benin, With Special Emphasis on Coinfection Patterns

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
A growing number of studies has highlighted the importance of coinfections in eco‐evolutionary processes underlying host–parasite interactions and the resulting epidemiology of zoonotic agents. Small mammals, and particularly rodents, are known to be important reservoirs of many zoonotic pathogens, such as Toxoplasma gondii and Trypanosoma lewisi, that
Jonas R. Etougbétché, Gualbert Houéménou, Antoine A. Missihoun, Philippe Gauthier, Henri-Joël Dossou, Lokman Galal, Ambroise Dalecky, Christophe Diagne, Gauthier Dobigny, Aurélien Mercier, Abdelfattah Selim   +10 more
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Reservoir displacement by an invasive rodent reduces Lassa virus zoonotic spillover risk

Nature Communications
The black rat (Rattus rattus) is a globally invasive species that has been widely introduced across Africa. Within its invasive range in West Africa, R.
Evan A. Eskew, Brian H. Bird, Bruno M. Ghersi, James Bangura, Andrew J. Basinski, Emmanuel Amara, Mohamed A. Bah, Marilyn C. Kanu, Osman T. Kanu, Edwin G. Lavalie, Victor Lungay, Willie Robert, Mohamed A. Vandi, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Scott L. Nuismer   +14 more
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Isozyme and allozyme markers distinguishing two morphologically similar, medically important Mastomys species (Rodentia: Muridae)

BMC Genetics, 2001
Background Two common southern African mice species, Mastomys coucha and M. natalensis, are widely distributed throughout the subregion and overlap in many areas.
Van der Bank Herman FH, Smit Andre A
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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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Small mammals as hosts of immature ixodid ticks

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2005
Two hundred and twenty-five small mammals belonging to 16 species were examined for ticks in Free State, Mpumalanga and Limpopo Provinces, South Africa, and 18 ixodid tick species, of which two could only be identified to genus level, were recovered ...
I.G. Horak, L.J. Fourie, L.E.O. Braack
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Comparative non-metric and morphometric analyses of rats at residential halls of the University of Benin campus, Nigeria

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2018
Background: In mammals and across rat species, the variation in conformation is markedly observed in the head and the variation in the shape of the head is mostly determined by the shape of the skull.
Amienwanlen E. Odigie, Kazeem O. Ekeolu, Daniel O. Asemota, Edwin A. Uwagie-Ero, Isoken T. Aighewi, Stephena U. Ighedosa, Stella F. Usifoh, Babasola O. Olugasa, Osadolor Asemota, Toyin E. Fagboya   +9 more
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The effect of vagotomy on enterochromaffin-like cells in Mastomys natalensis

Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System, 1996
The effect of vagotomy on the development of ECL cell tumours was analyzed during drug-induced hypergastrinemia in Mastomys natalensis, a rodent prone to develop ECL cell tumours. Untreated animals were compared with animals receiving the histamine2-receptor blocker loxtidine (LOX) and with animals subjected to unilateral subdiaphragmatic vagotomy ...
B, Wängberg, O, Nilsson, E, Theodorsson, I M, Modlin, A, Dahlström, H, Ahlman   +5 more
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Histamine metabolism of gastric carcinoids in Mastomys natalensis.

The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 1999
Pharmacological inhibition of gastric acid secretion and subsequent hypergastrinemia in Mastomys natalensis is an experimental model well suited for the study of gastric carcinoid formation. The genetic susceptibility of Mastomys to develop such tumors is a feature reminiscent of the situation in patients with the MEN-1 Zollinger Ellison syndrome, in ...
L, Kölby, B, Wängberg, H, Ahlman, I M, Modlin, O, Nilsson   +4 more
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Immunogenetics, sylvatic plague and its vectors: insights from the pathogen reservoir Mastomys natalensis in Tanzania. [PDF]

Immunogenetics, 2023
Haikukutu L, Lyaku JR, Lyimo CM, Eiseb SJ, Makundi RH, Olayemi A, Wilhelm K, Müller-Klein N, Schmid DW, Fleischer R, Sommer S.   +10 more
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