New Lineage of Lassa Virus, Togo, 2016

Shannon Whitmer,Thomas Strecker,Daniel Cadar,H. P. 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 S. 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

New Lineage of Lassa Virus, Togo, 2016

2018

: 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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Virology
Immunology
Lassa fever
Lassa virus
Biology
Viral hemorrhagic fever
Cercopithecus aethiops
Vero cell
Phylogenetics

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