- Abstract:
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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 peri...
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- Article: e388
- Publication date:
- 2009-03-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1935-2735
- URN:
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uuid:82e0efd3-f192-432f-837d-9e97da0be6e7
- Local pid:
- ora:2768
- Language:
- English
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- Copyright holder:
- E. Fichet-Calvet & D. J. Rogers
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- Citation: Fichet-Calvet, E. & Rogers, D. J. (2009). 'Risk maps of Lassa fever in West Africa', PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 3(3), e388. [Available at http://www.plosntds.org]. © E. Fichet-Calvet & D. J. Rogers. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Risk maps of Lassa fever in West Africa
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