Lassa virus

"Lassa virus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

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A species of ARENAVIRUS, part of the Old World Arenaviruses (ARENAVIRUSES, OLD WORLD), and the etiologic agent of LASSA FEVER. LASSA VIRUS is a common infective agent in humans in West Africa. Its natural host is the multimammate mouse Mastomys natalensis.

Descriptor ID

D007836

MeSH Number(s)

B04.820.057.070.100.500

B04.909.777.080.070.100.500

Concept/Terms

Lassa virus

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Organisms [B]
Viruses [B04]
RNA Viruses [B04.820]
Arenaviridae [B04.820.057]
Arenavirus [B04.820.057.070]
Arenaviruses, Old World [B04.820.057.070.100]
Lassa virus [B04.820.057.070.100.500]
Vertebrate Viruses [B04.909]
RNA Viruses [B04.909.777]
Arenaviridae [B04.909.777.080]
Arenavirus [B04.909.777.080.070]
Arenaviruses, Old World [B04.909.777.080.070.100]
Lassa virus [B04.909.777.080.070.100.500]

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publications

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Lassa virus" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Lassa virus" was a major or minor topic of these publication.

Bar chart showing 29 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2010	1	0	1
2011	1	0	1
2012	3	1	4
2013	1	0	1
2014	2	1	3
2015	2	1	3
2016	2	1	3
2017	1	0	1
2018	3	0	3
2019	2	1	3
2020	6	0	6

Below are the most recent publications written about "Lassa virus" by people in Profiles.

Antibodies from Sierra Leonean and Nigerian Lassa fever survivors cross-react with recombinant proteins representing Lassa viruses of divergent lineages. Sci Rep. 2020 09 29; 10(1):16030.

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Deployable CRISPR-Cas13a diagnostic tools to detect and report Ebola and Lassa virus cases in real-time. Nat Commun. 2020 08 17; 11(1):4131.

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Identification of Common CD8+ T Cell Epitopes from Lassa Fever Survivors in Nigeria and Sierra Leone. J Virol. 2020 06 01; 94(12).

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Field evaluation of a Pan-Lassa rapid diagnostic test during the 2018 Nigerian Lassa fever outbreak. Sci Rep. 2020 05 26; 10(1):8724.

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High crossreactivity of human T cell responses between Lassa virus lineages. PLoS Pathog. 2020 03; 16(3):e1008352.

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Quadrivalent VesiculoVax vaccine protects nonhuman primates from viral-induced hemorrhagic fever and death. J Clin Invest. 2020 01 02; 130(1):539-551.

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Lassa virus circulating in Liberia: a retrospective genomic characterisation. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019 12; 19(12):1371-1378.

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Lassa fever diagnostics: past, present, and future. Curr Opin Virol. 2019 08; 37:132-138.

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Retrospective Cohort Study of Lassa Fever in Pregnancy, Southern Nigeria. Emerg Infect Dis. 2019 08; 25(8).

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Genomic Analysis of Lassa Virus during an Increase in Cases in Nigeria in 2018. N Engl J Med. 2018 11 01; 379(18):1745-1753.

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