We immediately segregated the infected mice from the main colony. Bedding material was discarded and replenished with freshly autoclaved material. We considered that the source of contamination ...

Lassa fever is a deadly viral hemorrhagic illness that lowers the platelet count in the blood and its ability to clot, ...

Trappers can find up to 20 rats per day in some villages. After identifying if the rodents are the Lassa-carrying Mastomys variety, samples are collected for analysis. The rats then receive an ...

Lassa virus is spread by the multimammate rat (Mastomys natalensis) As is the case for many viral haemorrhagic fevers, health-care workers have been disproportionately affected. 15 have already tested ...

Department of Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako IHPE, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, Univ. Perpignan Via ...

Objective The Collaborative Cross (CC) is a mouse population model with diverse and reproducible genetic backgrounds used to identify novel disease models and genes that contribute to human disease.