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Volume 28, Number 5—May 2022
Dispatch

Pathogens that Cause Illness Clinically Indistinguishable from Lassa Fever, Nigeria, 2018

Jonathan W. Ashcroft1, Adebola OlayinkaComments to Author , Nnaemeka Ndodo, Kuiama Lewandowski, Martin D. Curran, Chioma Dan Nwafor, Kingsley Madubuike, Helen Bagnall, Abdulmajid S. Musa, Adama Ahmad, Afolabi Akinpelu, Adesola Adeleye, Chukwuji Martin, Adejoke Akano, Michael Onoja, Akanimo Iniobong, Winifred Ukponu, Chinedu Arinze, Else Ilori, Nwando Mba, Benedict Gannon, Anthony Ahumibe, and Chikwe Ihekweazu
Author affiliations: Public Health England, London, UK (J.W. Ashcroft, H. Bagnall, B. Gannon); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (J.W. Ashcroft, H. Bagnall, B. Gannon); Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria (A. Olayinka, N. Ndodo, C. Dan Nwafor, K. Madubuike, A.S. Musa, A. Ahmad, A. Akinpelu, A. Adeleye, C. Martin, A. Akano, M. Onoja, A. Iniobong, W. Ukponu, C. Arinze, E. Ilori, N. Mba, A. Ahumibe, C. Ihekweazu); Public Health England, Porton Down, UK (K. Lewandowski); Clinical Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory, Public Health England, Cambridge, UK (M.D. Curran)

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Number of samples from patients who met the case definition for Lassa fever that were positive for specific bacterial pathogens, among 160 samples tested, Nigeria, 2018. *All Salmonella_ttr–positive samples also registered as Salmonella_hilA–gene positive. †Includes one EAggEC. ‡Sample also positive for Streptococcus, Proteus spp., and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. E. cloacae, Enterobacter cloacae; EAggEC, enteroaggregative E. coli; E. coli, Escherichia coli; H., Haemophilus; K., Klebsiella; N., Neisseria; P., Pseudomonas; S., Streptococcus; TAC, TaqMan Array Cards (Applied Biosystems, https://www.thermofisher.com); ttr, tetrathionate.

Figure 2. Number of samples from patients who met the case definition for Lassa fever that were positive for specific bacterial pathogens, among 160 samples tested, Nigeria, 2018. *All Salmonella_ttr–positive samples also registered as Salmonella_hilA–gene positive. †Includes one EAggEC. ‡Sample also positive for Streptococcus, Proteus spp., and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. E. cloacae, Enterobacter cloacae; EAggEC, enteroaggregative E. coli; E. coli, Escherichia coli; H., Haemophilus; K., Klebsiella; N., Neisseria; P., Pseudomonas; S., Streptococcus; TAC, TaqMan Array Cards (Applied Biosystems, https://www.thermofisher.com); ttr, tetrathionate.

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1Current affiliation: Army, Defence Science & Technology, Ministry of Defence, London, UK.

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