Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2018)
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
Affiliations
- 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
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2403.171905
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 24,
no. 3
pp. 599 – 602
Abstract
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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