Boosting understanding of Lassa Fever virus epidemiology: Field testing a novel assay to identify past Lassa Fever virus infection in blood and oral fluids of survivors and unexposed controls in Sierra Leone.

Boosting understanding of Lassa Fever virus epidemiology: Field testing a novel assay to identify past Lassa Fever virus infection in blood and oral fluids of survivors and unexposed controls in Sierra Leone.

<h4>Background</h4>Despite identification 50 years ago, the true burden of Lassa Fever (LF) across Africa remains undefined for reasons including research focus on hospitalised patients, lack of validated field-feasible tools which reliably identify past infection, and the fact that all...

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Main Authors: Onome Akpogheneta, Steve Dicks, Donald Grant, Zainab Kanneh, Brima Jusu, Joseph Edem-Hotah, Lansana Kanneh, Foday Alhasan, Michael Gbakie, John Schieffelin, Samreen Ijaz, Richard Tedder, Hilary Bower
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-03-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009255

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009255

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