New Lineage of Lassa Virus, Togo, 2016

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Shannon L.M. Whitmer, Ctr Dis Control & Prevent; Thomas Strecker, Philipps Univ; Daniel Cadar, Bernhard Nocht Inst Trop Med; Ketan Patel, Ctr Dis Control & Prevent; Shelley M. Brown, Ctr Dis Control & Prevent; William G. Davis, Ctr Dis Control & Prevent; John D. Klena, Ctr Dis Control & Prevent; Svenja Wolff, Philipps Univ; Sarah Katharina Fehling, Philipps Univ; Markus Eickmann, Philipps Univ; Bruce Ribner, Emory University; Jay B Varkey, Emory University; Aneesh K Mehta, Emory University; G Marshall Lyon III, Emory University; Colleen S Kraft, Emory University; Stuart T. Nichol, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2018-03-01
• Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2018, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All rights reserved.
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2403.171905
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Emerging Infectious Disease
• ISSN: 1080-6040
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 3
• Start Page: 599
• End Page: 602
• Grant/Funding Information: We also received support from the Serious Communicable Diseases Program at Emory Hospital, which is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award no. UL1TR000454.; This study was supported by the German Research Foundation (grants SFB 1021 TP A02/B03 to S.B., TP B05 to T.S., and TP Z02 to T.H.; GU 883/4-1 to S.G.; and FI1787/2-1 to E.F.C.) and the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 project EVAg (European Virus Archive goes global), grant agreement no. 653316.
• Keywords: Infectious Diseases; Immunology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Science & Technology
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Epidemiology; Health Sciences, Immunology

Abstract

We describe a strain of Lassa virus representing a putative new lineage that was isolated from a cluster of human infections with an epidemiologic link to Togo. This finding extends the known range of Lassa virus to Togo.