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Arenaviridae
(redirected from arenavirus)

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Arenaviridae [ə‚rēn·ə′vī·rə‚dē]
(virology)
A family of ribonucleic acid animal viruses consisting of a single genus, Arenavirus, having an enveloped, spherical pleomorphic form.


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The Old World arenavirus Lassa virus causes up to 300,000 cases of Lassa fever annually in endemic foci of 2 geographically disjunct regions of West Africa (1).
The first reported case of Lassa fever, caused by infection with an arenavirus, was described in a pregnant patient.
Lassa fever is a viral hemorrhagic fever caused by a rodentborne arenavirus that is endemic in West Africa.
 
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