Lassa Fever

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Monath, T.P. , Mertens, P.E. Patton, R. Gary, G.W. and Kissling , R.E. (1973). A hospital epidemic of Lassa fever in Zorzor, Liberia, March-April, 1972 . American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , 22, 773.

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Green, C.A. , Gordon, D.H. and Lyons, N.F. (1978). Biological aspects in Praomys (Mastomys) natalensis (Smith), a rodent carrier of Lassa virus and bubonic plague in Africa. American Journal o f Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 27, 627.

Kiley, M.P. , Lange, J.V. and Johnson, K.M. (1979). Protection of rhesus monkeys from Lassa virus by immunisation with closely related arenamrus. Lancet, 2, 738.

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Galbraith, N.S. , Berrie, J.R.H. , Forbes, P. and Young, S. (1978) Public health aspects of viral haemorrhagic fevers. Journal of the Royal Society of Health, 98, 152.

Carey, D.E. , Kemp, G.E. , White, H.A. , Pinneo, L. and Addy, R.E. (1972). Lassa Fever. Epidemiological aspect of the 1970 epidemic, Jos, Nigeria. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , 66, 402.

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" Emond, R.T.D. (1978). Hospitalisation of patients suspected of highly infectious disease. Ebola Virus Haemorrhagic Fever, Elsevier , North Holland, 396.

Monath, T.P. , Maher, M. , Casals, J., et al (1974). Lassa fever in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. II. Clinical and virological studies in selected hospitalized patients. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 23, 1140.

Frame, J.D. , Baldwin, J.M. , Gocke, D.J. and Troup, J.M. (1970). Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. I. Clinical description and pathological findings. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 19, 670.

Edington, G.M. and White, H.A. (1972). The pathology of Lassa fever. Transactions of the Royal Society o f Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 66, 381.

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Mccormick, J.B. and Johnson, K.M. (1978). Lassa fever: historical review and contemporary investigation. Ebola Virus Haemorrhagic Fever, Elsevier, North Holland, 279.

Leifer, E. , Gocke, D.J. and Bourne, H. (1970). Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. II. Report of a laboratory acquired infection treated with plasma from a person recently recovered from the disease. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 19, 677.

Woodruff, A.W. , Bowen, E.T.W. and Platt, G.S. (1978). Viral infections in travellers from tropical Africa. British Medical Journal , 1, 956.

Emond, R.T.D. , Smith, H. and Welsby, P.D. (1978). Assessment of patients with suspected viral haemorrhagic fever. British Medical Journal, 1,966.

Emond, R.T.D. , Smith, H. and Welsby, P.D. (1979). Management of viral haemorrhagic fever suspects: a further year's experience. Communicable Disease Report 79/8.

Emond, R.T.D. (1976). Isolation for high-risk patients. Postgraduate Medical Journal , 52, 563.

Hutchison, J.G.P. , Gray, J. , Flewett, T.H. , Emond, R.T.D. , Evans, B. and Trexler, P.C. (1978). The safety of the Trexler isolator as judged by some physical and biological criteria: a report of experimental work at two centres. Journal of Hygiene, Cam-bridge , 81, 311.

Emond, R.T.D. , Evans, B. , Bowen, E.T.W. and Lloyd, G. (1977). A case of Ebola virus infeetion. British Medical Journal, 2, 541.

Department of Health and Social Security. (1976). Memorandum on Lassa Fever . H.M.S.O., London.