title: Mastomys natalensis and Lassa fever, West Africa.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Philipps University Institute of Virology, Marburg, Germany. emilie.lecompte@hotmail.fr
authors.forename: Emilie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lecompte
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fichet-Calvet
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Daffis
authors.forename: Kékoura
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koulémou
authors.forename: Oumar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sylla
authors.forename: Fodé
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kourouma
authors.forename: Amadou
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Doré
authors.forename: Barré
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Soropogui
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Aniskin
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Allali
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kouassi Kan
authors.forename: Aude
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lalis
authors.forename: Lamine
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Koivogui
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Günther
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Denys
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: ter Meulen
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral