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

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New lineage of lassa virus, Togo, 2016

Emerging Infectious Diseases

DOI: 10.3201/eid2403.171905

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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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Whitmer, S. L. M., Strecker, T., Cadar, D., Dienes, H. P., Faber, K., Patel, K., … Günther, S. (2018, March 1). New lineage of lassa virus, Togo, 2016. Emerging Infectious Diseases. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2403.171905

New lineage of lassa virus, Togo, 2016

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