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Akouda Akessiwe Patassi [1; 2] and Dadja Essoya Landoh [3] and Agballa Mebiny-Essoh Tchalla [4] and Wemboo Afiwa Halatoko [2; 5] and Hamadi Assane [6] and Bayaki Saka [7] and Mouchedou Abdoukarim Naba [8] and Issifou Yaya [9] and Kossi Atsissinta Edou [10] and Tsidi Agbeko Tamekloe [2; 11] and Abiba Kere Banla [2; 5] and Kokou Mawule Davi [3] and Magloire Manga [12] and Yao Kassankogno [2] and Dominique Salmon-Ceron [13]

Academic Editor: Tomoyuki Shibata

1, Service des Maladies Infectieuses, CHU Sylvanus Olympio, Lomé, Togo

2, Comité national de lutte contre les Urgences, Lomé, Togo

3, Organisation Mondiale de la Santé, Lomé, Togo, who.int

4, Direction Préfectorale de la santé de Sotouboua, Sotouboua, Togo

5, Institut National d’Hygiène-Laboratoire, Lomé, Togo, inhtogo.tg

6, Direction Préfectorale de la santé de Tchamba, Tchamba, Togo

7, Service de Dermatologie CHU Sylvanus Olympio, Lomé, Togo

8, Direction Préfectorale de la santé de Doufelgou, Niamtougou, Togo

9, Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, IRD, SESSTIM, Sciences Economiques & Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l’Information Médicale, Marseille, France, inserm.fr

10, Direction Préfectorale de la santé de Oti, Mango, Togo

11, Division de l’Epidémiologie du Ministère de la Santé, Lomé, Togo

12, Université de Casamance, Ziguinchor, Senegal, univ-zig.sn

13, Service de Maladies Infectieuses, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France, aphp.fr

Received May 13, 2017; Revised Aug 31, 2017; Accepted Oct 15, 2017

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1. Background

Lassa fever is an old hemorrhagic fever discovered for the first time in West Africa in Nigeria in 1969. The single-stranded RNA virus was isolated for the 1st time from the town of Lassa in Nigeria [1–3]. The animal reservoir of the virus is the multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis). The virus is transmitted to humans via contact of human food with urine or feces of an infected animal living in the house or in the bush [2, 4]. Person-to-person infections and laboratory transmission are also possible, particularly in the absence of adequate infection control measures in the health care environment. Sexual transmission has been described in humans [3]. All humans can develop the disease after infection [1,...

 

 

 

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