TY - JOUR AU - Kronmann, Karl AU - Nimo-Paintsil, Shirley AU - Guirguis, Fady AU - Kronmann, Lisha AU - Bonney, Kofi AU - Obiri-Danso, Kwasi AU - Ampofo, William AU - Fichet-Calvet, Elisabeth T1 - Two Novel Arenaviruses Detected in Pygmy Mice, Ghana T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2013 VL - 19 IS - 11 SP - 1832 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Two arenaviruses were detected in pygmy mice (Mus spp.) by screening 764 small mammals in Ghana. The Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis), the known Lassa virus reservoir, was the dominant indoor rodent species in 4 of 10 sites, and accounted for 27% of all captured rodents. No rodent captured indoors tested positive for an arenavirus. KW - arenaviruses KW - viruses KW - Lassa virus KW - Ghana KW - Murinae KW - mice KW - Rodentia KW - zoonoses KW - reservoirs KW - emerging communicable diseases KW - epidemiology KW - Lassa fever KW - Western Africa KW - west Africa KW - pygmy mice DO - 10.3201/eid1911.121491 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/11/12-1491_article ER - End of Reference