Risk maps of Lassa fever in West Africa.

Journal article

BACKGROUND: Lassa fever is caused by a viral haemorrhagic arenavirus that affects two to three million people in West Africa, causing a mortality of between 5,000 and 10,000 each year. The natural reservoir of Lassa virus is the multi-mammate rat Mastomys natalensis, which lives in houses and surrounding fields. With the aim of gaining more information to control this disease, we here carry out a spatial analysis of Lassa fever data from human cases and infected rodent hosts covering the per...

Expand abstract

Authors: Fichet-Calvet, E; Rogers, D

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: PLoS neglected tropical diseases
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 3
• Pages: e388
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000388
• EISSN: 1935-2735
• ISSN: 1935-2727
• Language: English
• Keywords: Humans; Animals; Risk Factors; Lassa Fever; Disease Reservoirs; Multivariate Analysis; Rain; Murinae; Fourier Analysis; Disease Outbreaks; Africa, Western; Lassa virus