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Systematics, Ecology, and Host Switching: Attributes Affecting Emergence of the Lassa Virus in Rodents across Western Africa.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clinical Outcomes of Severe Lassa Fever in West Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- Lassa fever in West Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of attack rates, case fatality rates and risk factors.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Non-Mastomys rodents harbour ancient Lassa virus lineages within Benin and Nigeria's Guinea savanna belt.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Regional Lassa virus lineages select for divergent MHC-I repertoires in Mastomys natalensis rodents.PLoS pathogens · 2026Article
- Genomic epidemiology and evolutionary analysis of Lassa virus from small mammals suggest bidirectional viral movement across humans and animals.Virus evolution · 2026Article
- Serosurveillance Identifies an Endemic Hotspot of Lassa Fever in Faranah, Upper Guinea.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Lassa fever in Bauchi State, Nigeria: communication channels and health-seeking behavior.IJID regions · 2025Article
- Review
- Impact of seasonal change on virus-rodent dynamics in NigeriaCurrent research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2025Article
- Rodent control strategies and Lassa virus: some unexpected effects in Guinea, West Africa.Emerging microbes & infections · 2024Article
- Rapid taxonomic categorization of short, abundant virus sequences for ecological analyses.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Reservoir displacement by an invasive rodent reduces Lassa virus zoonotic spillover risk.Nature communications · 2024Article
- MHC-I alleles mediate clearance and antibody response to the zoonotic Lassa virus in Mastomys rodent reservoirs.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Circulation of Lassa virus across the endemic Edo-Ondo axis, Nigeria, with cross-species transmission between multimammate mice.Emerging microbes & infections · 2023Article
- Immunogenetics, sylvatic plague and its vectors: insights from the pathogen reservoir Mastomys natalensis in Tanzania.Immunogenetics · 2023Article
- A Lassa virus mRNA vaccine confers protection but does not require neutralizing antibody in a guinea pig model of infection.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Seroprevalence of anti-Lassa Virus IgG antibodies in three districts of Sierra Leone: A cross-sectional, population-based study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- Current sampling and sequencing biases of Lassa mammarenavirus limit inference from phylogeography and molecular epidemiology in Lassa fever endemic regions.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Luna Virus and Helminths in WildPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Impact of fertility versus mortality control on the demographics of Mastomys natalensis in maize fields.Integrative zoology · 2022Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Ever since it was established that rodents serve as reservoirs of the zoonotic Lassa virus (LASV), scientists have sought to answer the questions: which populations of rodents carry the virus? How do fluctuations in LASV prevalence and rodent abundance influence Lassa fever outbreaks in humans? What does it take for the virus to adopt additional rodent hosts, proliferating what already are devastating cycles of rodent-to-human transmission? In this review, we examine key aspects of research involving the biology of rodents that affect their role as LASV reservoirs, including phylogeography, demography, virus evolution, and host switching. We discuss how this knowledge can help control Lassa fever and suggest further areas for investigation.
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