Lassa Virus in Multimammate Rats, Côte d’Ivoire, 2013

Kouadio, Léonce; Nowak, Kathrin; Akoua-Koffi, Chantal; Weiß, Sabrina; Allali, Bernard; Witkowski, Peter T.; Krüger, Detlev H.; Couacy‐Hymann, Emmanuel; Calvignac‐Spencer, Sébastien; Leendertz, Fabian H.

doi:10.3201/eid2108.150312

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“…Two major hotspots of LASV infection occur across Western Africa, one in Nigeria and the other in the Mano River Union (MRU) countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia) ( Figure 1). Few other foci appear in places such in southern Mali and northern Ivory Coast [5,13,14] (Figure 1). Attempting to explain this fragmentation, risk map models indicate some correlation between LASV occurrence and environmental variables such as rainfall and temperature [11,[15][16][17].…”

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Systematics, Ecology, and Host Switching: Attributes Affecting Emergence of the Lassa Virus in Rodents across Western Africa

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Fichet‐Calvet

2020

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Ever since it was established that rodents serve as reservoirs of the zoonotic Lassa virus (LASV), scientists have sought to answer the questions: which populations of rodents carry the virus? How do fluctuations in LASV prevalence and rodent abundance influence Lassa fever outbreaks in humans? What does it take for the virus to adopt additional rodent hosts, proliferating what already are devastating cycles of rodent-to-human transmission? In this review, we examine key aspects of research involving the biology of rodents that affect their role as LASV reservoirs, including phylogeography, demography, virus evolution, and host switching. We discuss how this knowledge can help control Lassa fever and suggest further areas for investigation.

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Systematics, Ecology, and Host Switching: Attributes Affecting Emergence of the Lassa Virus in Rodents across Western Africa

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Fichet‐Calvet

2020

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“…Lassa virus is endemic to the West Africa countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, and Nigeria ( 1 – 3 ). The virus causes Lassa fever, a hemorrhagic disease with a case-fatality rate ≈30% in the current hospital setting in West Africa.…”

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“…The virus causes Lassa fever, a hemorrhagic disease with a case-fatality rate ≈30% in the current hospital setting in West Africa. So far, 4 lineages of Lassa virus are firmly established: lineages I, II, and III circulate in Nigeria, and lineage IV circulates in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, and Côte d’Ivoire ( 1 – 3 ). Recently, strains from Mali and Côte d’Ivoire were proposed to represent a separate lineage V ( 4 ).…”

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New Lineage of Lassa Virus, Togo, 2016

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“…In 2000, a German citizen received a diagnosis of LF after traveling through Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Burkina Faso ( 12 ). More recently, cases of LF have been identified in Ghana ( 13 ), and the presence of LASV-infected rodents has been documented in Côte d’Ivoire ( 14 ). …”

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