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Isolation and Antigenic Characterization of Lassa Virus

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LASSA fever as it was first noticed early in 1969 in three missionary nurses in Nigeria will be described by Frame et al.1. The disease later affected two laboratory workers at the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit (YARU) in New Haven. Two of the nurses and one of the laboratory workers died.

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  1. Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

    SONJA M. BUCKLEY, JORDI CASALS & WILBUR G. DOWNS

  2. The Rockefeller Foundation, New York

    SONJA M. BUCKLEY, JORDI CASALS & WILBUR G. DOWNS

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BUCKLEY, S., CASALS, J. & DOWNS, W. Isolation and Antigenic Characterization of Lassa Virus. Nature 227, 174 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227174a0

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