Lassa serology in natural populations of rodents and horizontal transmission

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 665-674

  Fichet Calvet, Elisabeth ^a   Becker Ziaja, Beate ^a   Koivogui, Lamine ^b   Günther, Stephan ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b Institut National de la Santé Publique   (Guinea)

Author keywords

Horizontal transmission; Host age; IgG; Lassa virusAntibodies; Lemniscomys; Mastomys; Mus; Praomys; Rodents; Tropics; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUINEAN; HABITAT; HOST; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LASSA VIRUS; MASTOMYS ERYTHROLEUCUS; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; RODENT; RODENT DISEASE; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SPECIES; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GUINEA; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LASSA FEVER; MALE; MURINAE; RODENT DISEASES; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

LEMNISCOMYS; MASTOMYS; PRAOMYS; RODENTIA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; GUINEA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LASSA FEVER; LASSA VIRUS; MALE; MURINAE; RODENT DISEASES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84907217850     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2013.1484     Document Type: Article

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