Mastomys natalensis and Lassa fever, West Africa.
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. Distribution of this rodent and relative abundance compared with M. erythroleucus correlates geographically with Lassa virus seroprevalence in humans.
Lecompte
Emilie
E
Philipps University Institute of Virology, Marburg, Germany. emilie.lecompte@hotmail.fr
Fichet-Calvet
Elisabeth
E
Daffis
Stéphane
S
Koulémou
Kékoura
K
Sylla
Oumar
O
Kourouma
Fodé
F
Doré
Amadou
A
Soropogui
Barré
B
Aniskin
Vladimir
V
Allali
Bernard
B
Kouassi Kan
Stéphane
S
Lalis
Aude
A
Koivogui
Lamine
L
Günther
Stephan
S
Denys
Christiane
C
ter Meulen
Jan
J
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D016701:Guinea / Q000453:epidemiology; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D007835:Lassa Fever / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D007836:Lassa virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D051189:Murinae / Q000145:classification / Q000821:virology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
D012367:RNA, Viral