Lassa fever is an acute viral zoonotic illness caused by Lassa virus, an arenavirus known to
be responsible for a severe haemorrhagic fever characterised by fever, muscle aches, sore …

The arenavirus Lassa is found in West Africa, where it sometimes causes a severe illness
called Lassa fever. Lassa fever has been seldom investigated outside of a few …

Lassa fever, is an acute zoonotic disease of humans that is mainly endemic to West African
countries of Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. 1–3 Other countries such as Mali …

Lassa virus (LASV) is endemic in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia (known as the Mano
River region) and Nigeria and Lassa fever cases from these countries are being reported …

Lassa virus (LASV) is endemic in the rodent populations of Sierra Leone, Nigeria and other
countries in West Africa. Spillover to humans occurs frequently and results in Lassa fever, a …

In studies of Lassa fever in Sierra Leone, the prevalence. of human antibody to Lassa virus
ranged from 8% to 52%. Mastomys natalensis, the reservoir of Lassa virus, constituted 50 …

The Lassa virus (an arenavirus) is found in West Africa, where it sometimes causes a severe
hemorrhagic illness called Lassa fever. Laboratory diagnosis has traditionally been by the …

Lassa virus is a RNA virus belonging to the family of Arenaviridae. It was discovered as the
causative agent of a hemorrhagic fever—Lassa fever—about 30 years ago. Lassa fever is …

A prospective case-control study of Lassa fever was established in Sierra Leone to measure
the frequency and case-fatality ratio of Lassa fever among febrile hospital admissions and to …

Lassa virus is a rodentborne arenavirus responsible for human cases of Lassa fever, a viral
hemorrhagic fever, in West Africa and in travelers arriving to non–Lassa-endemic countries …