Volume 28, Number 5—May 2022
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Pathogens that Cause Illness Clinically Indistinguishable from Lassa Fever, Nigeria, 2018
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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.](/eid/images/21-1153-F2.jpg)
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.
1Current affiliation: Army, Defence Science & Technology, Ministry of Defence, London, UK.
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