Boosting understanding of Lassa Fever virus epidemiology: Field testing a novel assay to identify past Lassa Fever virus infection in blood and oral fluids of survivors and unexposed controls in Sierra Leone.

• Main Authors: Onome Akpogheneta (Author), Steve Dicks (Author), Donald Grant (Author), Zainab Kanneh (Author), Brima Jusu (Author), Joseph Edem-Hotah (Author), Lansana Kanneh (Author), Foday Alhasan (Author), Michael Gbakie (Author), John Schieffelin (Author), Samreen Ijaz (Author), Richard Tedder (Author), Hilary Bower (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Despite identification 50 years ago, the true burden of Lassa Fever (LF) across Africa remains undefined for reasons including research focus on hospitalised patients, lack of validated field-feasible tools which reliably identify past infection, and the fact that all...