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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2021

Mammarenaviruses of Rodents, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Antoinette A Grobbelaar, Jocelyn Jardine, Felicity J Burt, Alasdair J Shepherd, Susan P Shepherd, Patricia A Leman, Alan Kemp, Lawrence E O Braack, Jacqueline Weyer, Janusz T Paweska and 1 more

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Antoinette A Grobbelaar
Jocelyn Jardine
Felicity J Burt
Alasdair J Shepherd
Susan P Shepherd
Patricia A Leman
Alan Kemp
Lawrence E O Braack
Jacqueline Weyer
Janusz T Paweska
Robert Swanepoel
National Institute for Communicable DiseasesSouth African National Parks · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We conducted a survey for group-specific indirect immunofluorescence antibody to mammarenaviruses by using Lassa fever and Mopeia virus antigens on serum specimens of 5,363 rodents of 33 species collected in South Africa and Zimbabwe during 1964-1994. Rodents were collected for unrelated purposes or for this study and stored at -70°C. We found antibody to be widely distributed in the 2 countries; antibody was detected in serum specimens of 1.2%-31.8% of 14 species of myomorph rodents, whereas 19 mammarenavirus isolates were obtained from serum specimens and viscera of 4 seropositive species. Phylogenetic analysis on the basis of partial nucleoprotein sequences indicates that 14 isolates from Mastomys natalensis, the Natal multimammate mouse, were Mopeia virus, whereas Merino Walk virus was characterized as a novel virus in a separate study. The remaining 4 isolates from 3 rodent species potentially constitute novel viruses pending full characterization.

Indexed as

ArenaviridaeAnimalsDisease ReservoirsLassa virusMurinaePhylogenySouth AfricaZimbabwemammarenavirusMastomys natalensisMopeia virusNatal multimammate mouserodentsSouth AfricavirusesZimbabwe

Identifiers

PMID34808083
PMCPMC8632164
OpenAlexW3214881840

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