ArticleEmerging microbes & infections2024
Spatio-temporal spread of Lassa virus and a new rodent host in the Mano River Union area, West Africa.
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- Assessing the Environmental Drivers of Lassa Fever in West Africa: A Systematic Review.Viruses · 2025Pooled it
- Safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of INO-4500, a synthetic DNA-based vaccine against Lassa virus, in a phase 1b clinical trial in healthy Ghanaian adults.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Trial
- Nosocomial Outbreak of Lassa Fever in Conakry, Guinea, 2022.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Non-Mastomys rodents harbour ancient Lassa virus lineages within Benin and Nigeria's Guinea savanna belt.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Serological evidence of Lassa virus in commensal rodents from Senegal.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Evaluation of Thermal Inactivation and Chemical Disinfection Efficacy Against Lassa Virus.Viruses · 2026Article
- Assessing the Potential of Sexual Transmission of Lassa Virus in a Natural Rodent Reservoir.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- CLASV: Rapid Lassa virus lineage assignment with random forest.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Modelling Lassa virus dynamics in West AfricanJournal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
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Abstract
The spread of Lassa virus (LASV) in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which together are named the Mano River Union (MRU) area, was examined phylogeographically. To provide a reliable evolutionary scenario, new rodent-derived, whole LASV sequences were included. These were generated by metatranscriptomic next-generation sequencing from rodents sampled between 2003 and 2020 in 21 localities of Guinea and Sierra Leone. An analysis was performed using BEAST to perform continuous phylogeographic inference and EvoLaps v36 to visualize spatio-temporal spread. LASV was identified as expected in its primary host reservoir, the Natal multimammate mouse (
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