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Lassa virus

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Noun1.Lassa virus - the RNA virus that causes Lassa fever
arenavirus - animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae
Arenaviridae - a family of arborviruses carried by arthropods
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Rapid detection and quantification of RNA of Ebola and Marburg viruses, Lassa virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Rift Valley fever virus, dengue virus, and yellow fever virus by realtime reverse transcription-PCR.
Rift Valley fever, Mayotte, 2007-2008 by Sissoko, Daouda; Giry, Claude; Gabrie, Philippe; Tarantola, Arnaud; Pettinelli, Francois; Collet, Lo / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The viral haemorrhagic fevers and violence strangely go hand in hand: Lassa virus in Sierra Leone, Marburg virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ebola in northern Uganda.
The ebola-virus: ... and the Challenges to Health Research in Africa by Bausch, Daniel / UN Chronicle
In West Africa, for example, Lassa virus infects 100,000 to 300,000 people per year, killing more than 5,000 annually.
Killers Without Cures by DYER, NICOLE / Science World
 
 
 
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