title: Two novel arenaviruses detected in pygmy mice, Ghana.
abstract: Two arenaviruses were detected in pygmy mice (Mus spp.) by screening 764 small mammals in Ghana. The Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis), the known Lassa virus reservoir, was the dominant indoor rodent species in 4 of 10 sites, and accounted for 27% of all captured rodents. No rodent captured indoors tested positive for an arenavirus.
authors.forename: Karl C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Kronmann
authors.forename: Shirley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nimo-Paintsil
authors.forename: Fady
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guirguis
authors.forename: Lisha C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Kronmann
authors.forename: Kofi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bonney
authors.forename: Kwasi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Obiri-Danso
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ampofo
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fichet-Calvet
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001117:Arenaviridae Infections / Q000662:veterinary*; D018050:Arenavirus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000821:virology*; D005814:Genes, Viral; D062306:Geography, Medical; D005869:Ghana / Q000453:epidemiology; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*
keywords: Ghana; Lassa fever; Lassa virus; Murinae; Rodentia; Western Africa; arenaviruses; emerging communicable diseases; epidemiology; pygmy mice; reservoirs; viruses; west Africa; zoonoses