Lassa virus in multimammate rats, Côte d’Ivoire, 2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1481-1483

  Kouadio, Leonce ^a,b   Nowak, Kathrin ^a   Akoua Koffi, C ^c   Weiss, Sabrina ^a,d,e   Allali, Bernard K ^a,f   Witkowski, P T ^g   Kruger D H ^g   Couacy Hymann, Emmanuel ^b   Leendertz, F H ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Laboratoire Central de la Pathologie Animal   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^c Department of Anthropology and Sociology   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUT PASTEUR DE CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^g CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; LASSA FEVER; LETTER; MALE; MASTOMYS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS CARRIER; ANIMAL; ARENAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; COTE D'IVOIRE; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LASSA VIRUS; RAT; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARENAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; COTE D'IVOIRE; DISEASE VECTORS; LASSA VIRUS; RATS;

EID: 84937403277     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2108.150312     Document Type: Letter

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