Lassa Fever
An Assessment of Onset-to-Intervention Time and Outcome of Lassa Fever during an Outbreak in Edo State, Nigeria
... as Lassa fever has been known to occur as a nosocomial infection [11, ...of Lassa fever are fairly common in reported outbreaks with attendant adverse impact on the health care work force [23, ...
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A case report on Lassa fever and hearing loss: A rare occurrence and review of the literature
... Lassa fever is highly endemic in Nigeria and other West African countries, it is a disease associated with high case fatality and chronic sequelae in those that ...of Lassa fever complicated ...
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Diagnostic proficiency and reporting of Lassa fever by physicians in Osun State of Nigeria
... of Lassa fever, implying that more efforts should be made by an appropriate authority to make Ribavirin avail- able in all hospitals and equally inform the health care workers for easy access by contacts of ...
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Sensitivity Analysis of Multiple Control Intervention Measures of Lassa fever Disease Model
... and Lassa fever are prevalent diseases in the 21st century in ...report Lassa fever yearly prevalence in west Africa is estimated at 100,000 to 300,000, with approximately 5,000 ...of ...
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Knowledge of Lassa Fever among Students of a College of Education: Call for Inclusion in Curriculum
... for Lassa fever, causative agent, diagnostic method, and person-to-person transmission of the disease, their knowledge of the virus in other areas was below ...the Lassa fever outbreaks since ...
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Characterization of the Interaction of Lassa Fever Virus with Its Cellular Receptor α-Dystroglycan
... arenaviruses Lassa fever virus (LFV) and lymphocytic choriomen- ingitis virus (LCMV) has recently been identified as ␣ -dystroglycan ( ␣ -DG), a cell surface receptor that pro- vides a molecular link ...
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GLOBAL STABILITY ANALYSIS FOR LASSA FEVER TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS WITH OPTIMAL CONTROL APPLICATION
... Finally, because Mastomys rodents are sometimes consumed as a food source, infection may occur via direct contact when they are caught and pre- pared for food. Lassa fever may also spread through ...
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An assessment of the knowledge and practice of Lassa fever prevention in bong county, Liberia
... Lassa fever is endemic to West Africa; there had been several outbreaks of Lassa fever in West Africa, and Liberia is no ...of Lassa fever were imported into other countries, ...
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A Mathematical Modelling of Lassa Fever Dynamics with Non-drug Compliance Rate
... of Lassa fever transmission dynamics, focusing on a number of different ...of Lassa fever ...controlling Lassa fever transmission in Northern part of Edo state, ...
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Effective Vaccine for Lassa Fever
... the Lassa nucleoprotein and protection is consistent with findings for patients in Sierra Leone, for whom there was no correlation between titer of immunoglob- ulin G antibody on hospital admission and subsequent ...
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of Lassa fever in and around Lafia, Central Nigeria
... of Lassa fever in and around Lafia, Central ...of Lassa fever with 89% and 80% from urban and sub-urban ...of Lassa fever among respondents from urban and sub-urban areas ...
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Lassa Fever in Makurdi, Nigeria: Outcomes during the 2017/18 Outbreak
... the Lassa virus PCR and there is need for further investigations to determine factors that may be responsible such as the timing of sample collection and/or high degree of genetic diversity of the virus ...
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Prevalence, Pattern and Outcome of Pediatric Lassa Fever Disease (LFD) in a Tertiary Hospital, Southeast Nigeria
... Pediatric Lassa fever disease (LFD) are not well ...to Lassa virus PCR ...to Lassa virus PCR, giving a positivity rate of ...days. Fever, abdominal pain and vomiting were the three ...
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A Neuro-Fuzzy Case Based Reasoning Framework for Detecting Lassa Fever Based on Observed Symptoms
... Abstract: Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic fever that is awfully infectious through infected rodents in the mastomysnatalensis species that are complex reservoirs capable of excreting the ...
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Emerging trends in Lassa fever: redefining the role of immunoglobulin M and inflammation in diagnosing acute infection
... Limitations of this study include lack of randomiza- tion, limited number of fatal Lassa cases, potential patient by treatment interaction, and the limited dura- tion of the study. Random assignment of subjects to ...
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Rat-atouille: A Mixed Method Study to Characterize Rodent Hunting and Consumption in the Context of Lassa Fever
... In total, 524 subjects were recruited. Seven records were excluded because no village name was indicated, 57 because respondents lived in a major city (no comparative qualitative work was done in urban areas), 20 because ...
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Conserved Residues in Lassa Fever Virus Z Protein Modulate Viral Infectivity at the Level of the Ribonucleoprotein
... be required for Z-GP interaction (10). Most recently, budding by Z has been shown to be enhanced in the presence of viral NP (16). Z has also been shown to interact with NP and L (11, 14, 17, 31, 38), but the specific ...
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Accessibility to laboratory diagnosis of lassa fever in nigeria: a possible threat to the control of infectious diseases
... of Lassa fever in samples had traced “ancient roots” of Lassa nearly 1,000 years to a region that is now present-day ...the fever- Lassa Fever Research and Control Centre at ...
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Seroprevalence and risk factors of Lassa fever infection in Nasarawa State, Nigeria 2013
... • The seroprevalence of Lassa fever in Nasarawa State was found to be 18.1% • The known risk factors for infection were. found to be highly prevalent[r] ...
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Bibliometric analysis of global Lassa fever research (1970–2017): a 47 – year study
... with Lassa fever [4, ...on Lassa fever was re- ...in Lassa fever research which goes further to corroborate the finding that USA tops in global publication in Lassa ...
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