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LASSA FEVER OR LASSA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER RISK TO HUMANS FROM RODENT-BORNE ZOONOSES

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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.

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10.21608/jesp.2015.89689

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Lassa fever, West Africa, Human infection, clinical picture & fatality, Rodents

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MAMDOUH

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EL-BAHNASAWY

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M.

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Consultant of Endemic Diseases and Fevers, Military Medical Academy, Egypt.

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LAILA

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MEGAHED

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ABDEL-MAWLA

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Military Medical Academy.+, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt.

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HALA

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SALEH

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AHMED ABDALLA

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Military Medical Academy.+, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt.

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TOSSON

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MORSY

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A.

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Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt.

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45

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13481

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2015-04-01

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2020-05-15

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2015-04-01

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61

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70

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1110-0583

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2090-2549

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Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology

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LASSA FEVER OR LASSA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER RISK TO HUMANS FROM RODENT-BORNE ZOONOSES

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22 Jan 2023