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

doi:10.3201/eid2403.171905

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

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Division of Parasitic Diseases
University of Marburg
German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
Bernhard Nocht Insitute for Tropical Medicine
University of Cologne
Hospital of Hope
University of Rostock
Justus Liebig University Giessen
University of Ghana
Emory Global Health Institute
Goethe University Frankfurt

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	599-602
Number of pages	4
Journal	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume	24
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2403.171905
Publication status	Published - Mar 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Whitmer, S. L. M., Strecker, T., Cadar, D., Dienes, H. P., Faber, K., Patel, K., Brown, S. M., Davis, W. G., Klena, J. D., Rollin, P. E., Schmidt-Chanasit, J., Fichet-Calvet, E., Noack, B., Emmerich, P., Rieger, T., Wolff, S., Fehling, S. K., Eickmann, M., Mengel, J. P., ... Günther, S. (2018). New lineage of lassa virus, Togo, 2016. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 24(3), 599-602. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2403.171905

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