Detection of Lassa virus, Mali.
To determine whether Lassa virus was circulating in southern Mali, we tested samples from small mammals from 3 villages, including Soromba, where in 2009 a British citizen probably contracted a lethal Lassa virus infection. We report the isolation and genetic characterization of Lassa virus from an area previously unknown for Lassa fever.
Safronetz
David
D
National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana 59840, USA.
Lopez
Job E
JE
Sogoba
Nafomon
N
Traore'
Sékou F
SF
Raffel
Sandra J
SJ
Fischer
Elizabeth R
ER
Ebihara
Hideki
H
Branco
Luis
L
Garry
Robert F
RF
Schwan
Tom G
TG
Feldmann
Heinz
H
D000818:Animals; D007836:Lassa virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008302:Mali; D051189:Murinae / Q000821:virology