Lassa fever or Lassa hemorrhagic fever risk to humans from rodent-borne zoonoses
Joint Authors
al-Bahnasawy, Mamduh M. M.
Mujahid, Layla Abd al-Mawla
Salih, Halah Ahmad Abd Allah
Mursi, Tusun A.
Source
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology
Issue
Vol. 45, Issue 1 (30 Apr. 2015), pp.61-70, 10 p.
Publisher
The Egyptian Society of Parasitology
Publication Date
2015-04-30
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) typically manifest as rapidly progressing acute febrile syndromes with profound hemorrhagic manifestations and very high fatality rates.
Lassa fever, an acute hemorrhagic fever characterized by fever, muscle aches, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and chest and abdominal pain.
Rodents are important reservoirs of rodent-borne zoonosis worldwide.
Transmission rodents to humans occur by aerosol spread, either from the genus Mastomys rodents’ excreta (multimammate rat) or through the close contact with infected patients (nosocomial infection).
Other rodents of the genera Rattus, Mus, Lemniscomys, and Praomys are incriminated rodents hosts.
Now one may ask do the rodents’ ectoparasites play a role in Lassa virus zoonotic transmission.
This paper summarized the update knowledge on LHV; hopping it might be useful to the clinicians, nursing staff, laboratories’ personals as well as those concerned zoonoses from rodents and rodent control
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Bahnasawy, Mamduh M. M.& Mujahid, Layla Abd al-Mawla& Salih, Halah Ahmad Abd Allah& Mursi, Tusun A.. 2015. Lassa fever or Lassa hemorrhagic fever risk to humans from rodent-borne zoonoses. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology،Vol. 45, no. 1, pp.61-70.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Bahnasawy, Mamduh M. M.…[et al.]. Lassa fever or Lassa hemorrhagic fever risk to humans from rodent-borne zoonoses. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology Vol. 45, no. 1 (Apr. 2015), pp.61-70.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Bahnasawy, Mamduh M. M.& Mujahid, Layla Abd al-Mawla& Salih, Halah Ahmad Abd Allah& Mursi, Tusun A.. Lassa fever or Lassa hemorrhagic fever risk to humans from rodent-borne zoonoses. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology. 2015. Vol. 45, no. 1, pp.61-70.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-563411
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 68-70
Record ID
BIM-563411