Clinical features and patient management of Lujo hemorrhagic fever.

• Main Authors: Nivesh H Sewlall (Author), Guy Richards (Author), Adriano Duse (Author), Robert Swanepoel (Author), Janusz Paweska (Author), Lucille Blumberg (Author), Thu Ha Dinh (Author), Daniel Bausch (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In 2008 a nosocomial outbreak of five cases of viral hemorrhagic fever due to a novel arenavirus, Lujo virus, occurred in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lujo virus is only the second pathogenic arenavirus, after Lassa virus, to be recognized in Africa and the first in over 40 years. Because of the remo...