New Lineage of Lassa Virus, Togo, 2016
- Shannon L.M. Whitmer
- Thomas Strecker
- Daniel Cadar
- Hans-Peter Dienes
- Kelly Faber
- Ketan Patel
- Shelley M. Brown
- William G. Davis
- John D. Klena
- Pierre E. Rollin
- Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit
- Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet
- Bernd Noack
- Petra Emmerich
- Toni Rieger
- Svenja Wolff
- Sarah Katharina Fehling
- Markus Eickmann
- Jan Philipp Mengel
- Tilman Schultze
- Torsten Hain
- William Ampofo
- Kofi Bonney
- Juliana Naa Dedei Aryeequaye
- Bruce Ribner
- Jay B. Varkey
- Aneesh K. Mehta
- G. Marshall Lyon
- Gerrit Kann
- Philipp De Leuw
- Gundolf Schuettfort
- Christoph Stephan
- Ulrike Wieland
- Jochen W.U. Fries
- Matthias Kochanek
- Colleen S. Kraft
- Timo Wolf
- Stuart T. Nichol
- Stephan Becker
- Ute Ströher
- Stephan Günther
Publication date
March 2018
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
We describe a strain of Lassa virus representing a putative new lineage that was isolated from a cluster of human infections with an epidemiologic link to Togo. This finding extends the known range of Lassa virus to Togo
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