"Lassa Fever" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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An acute febrile human disease caused by the LASSA VIRUS.
| Descriptor ID |
D007835
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C02.782.082.545 C02.782.417.505
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| Concept/Terms |
Lassa Fever- Lassa Fever
- Fever, Lassa
- Fevers, Lassa
- Lassa Fevers
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lassa Fever" by people in Profiles.
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Health seeking behavior after the 2013-16 Ebola epidemic: Lassa fever as a metric of persistent changes in Kenema District, Sierra Leone. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021 07; 15(7):e0009576.
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Oxidation-sensitive polymersomes as vaccine nanocarriers enhance humoral responses against Lassa virus envelope glycoprotein. Virology. 2017 12; 512:161-171.
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Clinical laboratory, virologic, and pathologic changes in hamsters experimentally infected with Pirital virus (Arenaviridae): a rodent model of Lassa fever. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006 Jun; 74(6):1096-102.