Detection of Lassa Virus, Mali
- David Safronetz
- Job E. Lopez
- Nafomon Sogoba
- Sékou F. Traore’
- Sandra J. Raffel
- Elizabeth R. Fischer
- Hideki Ebihara
- Luis M. Branco
- Robert F. Garry
- Tom G. Schwan
- Heinz Feldmann
Publication date
July 2010
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
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
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