Hunting of peridomestic rodents and consumption of their meat as possible risk factors for rodent-to-human transmission of Lassa virus in the Republic of Guinea.

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Published in Am J Trop Med Hyg on December 01, 1996

Authors

J Ter Meulen1, I Lukashevich, K Sidibe, A Inapogui, M Marx, A Dorlemann, M L Yansane, K Koulemou, J Chang-Claude, H Schmitz

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1: Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.

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