PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, ISSN 1935-2727, 07/2017, Volume 11, Issue 7, p. e0005711
Background Convulsions with fever in children are a common neurologic emergency in the tropics, and determining the contribution of endemic viral infections...
KENYAN CHILDREN | ENCEPHALOPATHY | UNKNOWN ORIGIN | DIAGNOSIS | BACTERIAL-MENINGITIS | EMERGENCY-ROOM | FEBRILE | MALARIA | LUMBAR PUNCTURE | YOUNG-CHILDREN | PARASITOLOGY | TROPICAL MEDICINE | Virus diseases | Lassa fever | Research | Diagnosis | Children | Convulsions | Health aspects | Endemic species | Malaria | Nucleotide sequence | Laboratories | Emergencies | Viruses | Emergency medical care | Bleeding | Fever | Developing countries--LDCs | Virology | Polymerase chain reaction | Medicine | Confidence intervals | Vomiting | DNA | Meningitis | Differentiation | Public health | Emergency medical services | Viral infections | Teaching hospitals | Developing countries | LDCs
KENYAN CHILDREN | ENCEPHALOPATHY | UNKNOWN ORIGIN | DIAGNOSIS | BACTERIAL-MENINGITIS | EMERGENCY-ROOM | FEBRILE | MALARIA | LUMBAR PUNCTURE | YOUNG-CHILDREN | PARASITOLOGY | TROPICAL MEDICINE | Virus diseases | Lassa fever | Research | Diagnosis | Children | Convulsions | Health aspects | Endemic species | Malaria | Nucleotide sequence | Laboratories | Emergencies | Viruses | Emergency medical care | Bleeding | Fever | Developing countries--LDCs | Virology | Polymerase chain reaction | Medicine | Confidence intervals | Vomiting | DNA | Meningitis | Differentiation | Public health | Emergency medical services | Viral infections | Teaching hospitals | Developing countries | LDCs
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PLOS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203, 04/2019, Volume 14, Issue 4, p. e0214570
Background Many developing countries are in a state of nutritional transition from prevalent under-nutrition to the emergent problem of over-nutrition...
NUTRITIONAL-STATUS | ADOLESCENTS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | BODY-MASS INDEX | CIRCUMFERENCE | PREVALENCE | HYPERTENSION | CHILDHOOD OBESITY | SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS | BLOOD-PRESSURE | EPIDEMIOLOGY | Sparsely populated areas | Obesity in children | Demographic aspects | Social aspects | Health aspects | Risk factors | Independent variables | Body weight | Socioeconomics | Developing countries--LDCs | Demographic variables | Body mass index | Demographics | Teenagers | Children | Schools | Nutritional status | Obesity | Bivariate analysis | Statistical analysis | Nutrition | Rural areas | Complications | Urban areas | Socio-economic aspects | Regression analysis | Statistical tests | Risk analysis | Statistics | Morbidity | Body mass | Television | Bedrooms | Dependent variables | Socioeconomic factors | Body size | Females | Developing countries | LDCs
NUTRITIONAL-STATUS | ADOLESCENTS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | BODY-MASS INDEX | CIRCUMFERENCE | PREVALENCE | HYPERTENSION | CHILDHOOD OBESITY | SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS | BLOOD-PRESSURE | EPIDEMIOLOGY | Sparsely populated areas | Obesity in children | Demographic aspects | Social aspects | Health aspects | Risk factors | Independent variables | Body weight | Socioeconomics | Developing countries--LDCs | Demographic variables | Body mass index | Demographics | Teenagers | Children | Schools | Nutritional status | Obesity | Bivariate analysis | Statistical analysis | Nutrition | Rural areas | Complications | Urban areas | Socio-economic aspects | Regression analysis | Statistical tests | Risk analysis | Statistics | Morbidity | Body mass | Television | Bedrooms | Dependent variables | Socioeconomic factors | Body size | Females | Developing countries | LDCs
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Cell, ISSN 0092-8674, 08/2015, Volume 162, Issue 4, pp. 738 - 750
The 2013–2015 West African epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) reminds us of how little is known about biosafety level 4 viruses. Like Ebola virus, Lassa...
L-RNA | TRANSMISSION | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | ADAPTATION | DISEASE | ANCIENT | PATTERNS | CODON USAGE | PURIFYING SELECTION | EBOLA | FEVER | CELL BIOLOGY | Ebola virus | Proteins | Epidemics | Evolutionary biology | Genomics | Reservoirs | Ebola virus infections | Health aspects | Biosafety | Antigenic determinants
L-RNA | TRANSMISSION | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | ADAPTATION | DISEASE | ANCIENT | PATTERNS | CODON USAGE | PURIFYING SELECTION | EBOLA | FEVER | CELL BIOLOGY | Ebola virus | Proteins | Epidemics | Evolutionary biology | Genomics | Reservoirs | Ebola virus infections | Health aspects | Biosafety | Antigenic determinants
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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, ISSN 0022-538X, 11/2019, Volume 93, Issue 21
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Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, ISSN 1478-7210, 09/2018, Volume 16, Issue 9, pp. 663 - 666
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, ISSN 1935-2727, 09/2012, Volume 6, Issue 9, p. e1839
Background: Lassa fever is a viral hemorrhagic fever endemic in West Africa. However, none of the hospitals in the endemic areas of Nigeria has the capacity to...
MASTOMYS-NATALENSIS | HYPOTHERMIA | VIRUS | LIBERIA | ZORZOR | SIERRA-LEONE | EPIDEMIOLOGIC ASPECTS | GUINEA | SEPSIS | CLINICAL-OBSERVATIONS | PARASITOLOGY | TROPICAL MEDICINE | Molecular Diagnostic Techniques - methods | Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use | Humans | Middle Aged | Ribavirin - therapeutic use | Lassa virus - genetics | Molecular Sequence Data | Male | Lassa Fever - diagnosis | Sequence Analysis, DNA | Lassa Fever - mortality | Lassa virus - isolation & purification | Polymerase Chain Reaction - methods | Young Adult | Lassa Fever - drug therapy | RNA, Viral - genetics | Adolescent | Hospitals, Teaching | Survival Analysis | Adult | Female | Nigeria | Lassa fever | Usage | Demographic aspects | Molecular diagnostic techniques | Causes of | Diagnosis | Research
MASTOMYS-NATALENSIS | HYPOTHERMIA | VIRUS | LIBERIA | ZORZOR | SIERRA-LEONE | EPIDEMIOLOGIC ASPECTS | GUINEA | SEPSIS | CLINICAL-OBSERVATIONS | PARASITOLOGY | TROPICAL MEDICINE | Molecular Diagnostic Techniques - methods | Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use | Humans | Middle Aged | Ribavirin - therapeutic use | Lassa virus - genetics | Molecular Sequence Data | Male | Lassa Fever - diagnosis | Sequence Analysis, DNA | Lassa Fever - mortality | Lassa virus - isolation & purification | Polymerase Chain Reaction - methods | Young Adult | Lassa Fever - drug therapy | RNA, Viral - genetics | Adolescent | Hospitals, Teaching | Survival Analysis | Adult | Female | Nigeria | Lassa fever | Usage | Demographic aspects | Molecular diagnostic techniques | Causes of | Diagnosis | Research
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, ISSN 1935-2727, 03/2018, Volume 12, Issue 3, p. e0006361
Background The classical method for detection of Lassa virus-specific antibodies is the immunofluorescence assay (IFA) using virus-infected cells as antigen....
MASTOMYS-NATALENSIS | DIAGNOSIS | WEST-AFRICA | IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE | CLINICAL VIROLOGY | REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION-PCR | MARCH-APRIL 1972 | HOSPITAL EPIDEMIC | FEVER VIRUS | INFECTION | PARASITOLOGY | TROPICAL MEDICINE | Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay - methods | Immunoglobulin G - blood | Humans | Nucleoproteins - genetics | Lassa Fever - epidemiology | RNA, Viral - blood | Lassa Fever - diagnosis | Antibodies, Viral - blood | Lassa virus - immunology | Germany - epidemiology | Ghana - epidemiology | Lassa virus - isolation & purification | Immunoglobulin M - blood | Lassa Fever - immunology | Sensitivity and Specificity | Nigeria - epidemiology | Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect | Nucleoproteins - immunology | Lassa fever | Immunoglobulins | Genetic aspects | Immune response | Research | Diagnosis | Immunoglobulin M | Endemic species | IgG antibody | Methodology | Laboratories | Immunoglobulin G | Fluorescence | Clinical trials | Antibodies | Viruses | Infections | Assaying | Epidemiology | Specificity | Receptors | Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay | Supervision | Recombinant | Teaching hospitals | Evaluation | Antigens | Enzymes | Medical research | Nucleotide sequence | Patients | Fever | Virology | Polymerase chain reaction | Medicine | Fc receptors | Rheumatoid factor | DNA | Recombinants | Diagnostic systems | Detection | Immunofluorescence | Immunoassays | Methods
MASTOMYS-NATALENSIS | DIAGNOSIS | WEST-AFRICA | IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE | CLINICAL VIROLOGY | REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION-PCR | MARCH-APRIL 1972 | HOSPITAL EPIDEMIC | FEVER VIRUS | INFECTION | PARASITOLOGY | TROPICAL MEDICINE | Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay - methods | Immunoglobulin G - blood | Humans | Nucleoproteins - genetics | Lassa Fever - epidemiology | RNA, Viral - blood | Lassa Fever - diagnosis | Antibodies, Viral - blood | Lassa virus - immunology | Germany - epidemiology | Ghana - epidemiology | Lassa virus - isolation & purification | Immunoglobulin M - blood | Lassa Fever - immunology | Sensitivity and Specificity | Nigeria - epidemiology | Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect | Nucleoproteins - immunology | Lassa fever | Immunoglobulins | Genetic aspects | Immune response | Research | Diagnosis | Immunoglobulin M | Endemic species | IgG antibody | Methodology | Laboratories | Immunoglobulin G | Fluorescence | Clinical trials | Antibodies | Viruses | Infections | Assaying | Epidemiology | Specificity | Receptors | Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay | Supervision | Recombinant | Teaching hospitals | Evaluation | Antigens | Enzymes | Medical research | Nucleotide sequence | Patients | Fever | Virology | Polymerase chain reaction | Medicine | Fc receptors | Rheumatoid factor | DNA | Recombinants | Diagnostic systems | Detection | Immunofluorescence | Immunoassays | Methods
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, ISSN 1935-2727, 03/2015, Volume 9, Issue 3, p. e0003631
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has the potential to transform the discovery of viruses causing unexplained acute febrile illness (UAFI) because it does not...
VIRUS | IDENTIFICATION | INFERENCE | PARASITOLOGY | TROPICAL MEDICINE | FEVER | RNA Viruses - isolation & purification | Rhabdoviridae Infections - epidemiology | Humans | Rhabdoviridae - classification | RNA Viruses - genetics | Rhabdoviridae - isolation & purification | Male | Rhabdoviridae Infections - diagnosis | Case-Control Studies | Africa, Western - epidemiology | Rhabdoviridae Infections - virology | RNA, Viral - genetics | Sequence Analysis, RNA | Base Sequence | Nigeria - epidemiology | RNA Viruses - classification | Adult | Female | High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing | Rhabdoviridae - genetics | Library collections | Hepatitis | Immunology | Illnesses | Viruses | Genomes | Patients | Blood | Fever
VIRUS | IDENTIFICATION | INFERENCE | PARASITOLOGY | TROPICAL MEDICINE | FEVER | RNA Viruses - isolation & purification | Rhabdoviridae Infections - epidemiology | Humans | Rhabdoviridae - classification | RNA Viruses - genetics | Rhabdoviridae - isolation & purification | Male | Rhabdoviridae Infections - diagnosis | Case-Control Studies | Africa, Western - epidemiology | Rhabdoviridae Infections - virology | RNA, Viral - genetics | Sequence Analysis, RNA | Base Sequence | Nigeria - epidemiology | RNA Viruses - classification | Adult | Female | High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing | Rhabdoviridae - genetics | Library collections | Hepatitis | Immunology | Illnesses | Viruses | Genomes | Patients | Blood | Fever
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Archives of Disease in Childhood, ISSN 0003-9888, 05/2017, Volume 102, Issue Suppl 1, p. A122
BackgroundConvulsions associated with fever (CAWF), are a frequent medical emergency in children. In the tropics, endemic malaria and bacterial infections are...
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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, ISSN 0095-1137, 03/2011, Volume 49, Issue 3, pp. 1157 - 1161
Article Usage Stats Services JCM Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley...
MICROBIOLOGY | FEVER | Lassa virus - classification | Humans | Lassa Fever - epidemiology | Lassa virus - genetics | Molecular Sequence Data | Lassa Fever - virology | Phylogeny | Sequence Analysis, DNA | Lassa virus - isolation & purification | Polymorphism, Genetic | RNA, Viral - genetics | Molecular Epidemiology | Nigeria - epidemiology | Cluster Analysis | Epidemiology
MICROBIOLOGY | FEVER | Lassa virus - classification | Humans | Lassa Fever - epidemiology | Lassa virus - genetics | Molecular Sequence Data | Lassa Fever - virology | Phylogeny | Sequence Analysis, DNA | Lassa virus - isolation & purification | Polymorphism, Genetic | RNA, Viral - genetics | Molecular Epidemiology | Nigeria - epidemiology | Cluster Analysis | Epidemiology
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FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH, ISSN 2296-2565, 06/2019, Volume 7, p. 170
Background: The general lack of comprehensive data on the trends of Lassa fever (LF) outbreaks contrasts with its widespread occurrence in West Africa and is...
UNITED-STATES | DIAGNOSIS | implications | WEST-AFRICA | MANAGEMENT | caseload | GUIDELINES | CARE | PATHOGENESIS | Lassa fever | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | case fatality | center's experience | EBOLA-VIRUS DISEASE | SURVEILLANCE | outbreaks | Nigeria | OUTBREAK | trends | Hospital patients | Research | Health aspects | Analysis | Public health | Medical research | Patient outcomes | Medicine, Experimental | Epidemiology
UNITED-STATES | DIAGNOSIS | implications | WEST-AFRICA | MANAGEMENT | caseload | GUIDELINES | CARE | PATHOGENESIS | Lassa fever | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | case fatality | center's experience | EBOLA-VIRUS DISEASE | SURVEILLANCE | outbreaks | Nigeria | OUTBREAK | trends | Hospital patients | Research | Health aspects | Analysis | Public health | Medical research | Patient outcomes | Medicine, Experimental | Epidemiology
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Archives of Disease in Childhood, ISSN 0003-9888, 05/2012, Volume 97, Issue Suppl 1, pp. A38 - A39
Background Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever due to infection by the lassa virus (LV). it is acquired by man through contaminated food or close contact...
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Virology Journal, ISSN 1743-422X, 2013, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 123 - 123
Lassa fever, an endemic zoonotic viral infection in West Africa, presents with varied symptoms including fever, vomiting, retrosternal pain, abdominal pain,...
Acute abdomen | West African surgeon | Lassa fever diagnosis | VIROLOGY | RIBAVIRIN | POSTEXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS | Diagnosis, Differential | Abdomen, Acute - surgery | Abdomen, Acute - pathology | Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use | Humans | Ribavirin - therapeutic use | Abdomen, Acute - etiology | Infant | Male | Lassa Fever - diagnosis | Young Adult | Lassa Fever - drug therapy | Lassa Fever - pathology | Adolescent | Fatal Outcome | Adult | Female | Africa, Western | Lassa fever | Disease transmission | Diagnosis | Appendicitis | Health aspects
Acute abdomen | West African surgeon | Lassa fever diagnosis | VIROLOGY | RIBAVIRIN | POSTEXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS | Diagnosis, Differential | Abdomen, Acute - surgery | Abdomen, Acute - pathology | Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use | Humans | Ribavirin - therapeutic use | Abdomen, Acute - etiology | Infant | Male | Lassa Fever - diagnosis | Young Adult | Lassa Fever - drug therapy | Lassa Fever - pathology | Adolescent | Fatal Outcome | Adult | Female | Africa, Western | Lassa fever | Disease transmission | Diagnosis | Appendicitis | Health aspects
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Archives of Disease in Childhood, ISSN 0003-9888, 05/2017, Volume 102, Issue 5, p. A122
OC Akhuemokhan, J Ehiemua, DI Adomeh, I Odia, SC Olomu, B Becker-Ziaja, CT Happi, DA Asogun, SA Okogbenin, PO Okokhere, OS Dawodu, PC Sabeti, S Gunther, GO...
Lassa fever | Diagnosis | Children | Health aspects
Lassa fever | Diagnosis | Children | Health aspects
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European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, ISSN 0937-4477, 2/2011, Volume 268, Issue 2, pp. 197 - 201
Lassa fever (LF) is a viral hemorrhagic disease which affects one-fourth to two million people annually with the fatality rate of about 10,000. It is...
Lassa fever | Medicine & Public Health | Sensorineural hearing loss | Viral invasion | Head and Neck Surgery | Immune reaction | Otorhinolaryngology | Neurosurgery | RODENTS | NIGERIA | RECOVERY | VIRUS ISOLATION | CLINICAL VIROLOGY | OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY | DISEASE | DEAFNESS | UPDATE | Lassa Fever - complications | Acute Disease | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Lassa Fever - diagnosis | Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction | Acoustic Impedance Tests | Case-Control Studies | Young Adult | Hearing Loss, Sensorineural - diagnosis | Hearing Loss, Sensorineural - etiology | Adolescent | Adult | Audiometry, Pure-Tone | Female | Child | Antigen-antibody reactions | Immunoglobulins | Universities and colleges | Analysis | Hearing loss
Lassa fever | Medicine & Public Health | Sensorineural hearing loss | Viral invasion | Head and Neck Surgery | Immune reaction | Otorhinolaryngology | Neurosurgery | RODENTS | NIGERIA | RECOVERY | VIRUS ISOLATION | CLINICAL VIROLOGY | OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY | DISEASE | DEAFNESS | UPDATE | Lassa Fever - complications | Acute Disease | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Lassa Fever - diagnosis | Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction | Acoustic Impedance Tests | Case-Control Studies | Young Adult | Hearing Loss, Sensorineural - diagnosis | Hearing Loss, Sensorineural - etiology | Adolescent | Adult | Audiometry, Pure-Tone | Female | Child | Antigen-antibody reactions | Immunoglobulins | Universities and colleges | Analysis | Hearing loss
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