Data from: Lassa virus in multimammate rats, Côte d’Ivoire, 2013
- Kouadio, Leonce
- Nowak, Kathrin
- Akoua-Koffi, Chantal
- Weiss, Sabrina
- Allali, Bernard K.
- Witkowski, Peter T.
- Krüger, Detlev H.
- Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel
- Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien
- Leendertz, Fabian H.
Publication date
February 2017
DOIAbstract
Lassa fever is a zoonosis caused by Lassa virus (LASV; family Arenaviridae, genus Lassavirus). The primary reservoir of LASV is the multimammate rat (Mastomys natalensis), which is found throughout sub-Saharan Africa. For a study investigating zoonotic pathogens in rural habitats, we caught small mammals in 3 ecologic zones of Côte d’Ivoire: dry bushland in northern Côte d’Ivoire, around Korhogo; semiarid bushland in central Côte d’Ivoire, around Bouake; and rainforest in southwestern Côte d’Ivoire, near the Taï National Park
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