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4 entries match Africa & Middle East [Z01.058.500] · Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252] · Women & Gender [K01.700.500]

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1970

#5546.5

Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. III. Isolation and characterization of the virus.

BUCKLEY, Sonja Margaret (1918 – 2005) CASALS-ARIET, Jordi (1911 – 2004)

Preliminary note in Nature (Lond.), 1970, 227, 174. Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever is endemic to the West African countries of Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

1986

#10788

Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.

CLAVEL, François GUÉTARD, D. BRUN-VEZINET, François & et al.

HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…

2006

#11041

Chimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1.

HAHN, Beatrice H. (1955 – ) KEELE, Brandon F. HEUVERSWYN, Fran van LI, Yingying & et al.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Keele, Van Heuverswyn, Li, Hahn. Definitive proof that SIVcpz circulated and existed in wild chimps in a given area of Africa, and that a mutation of this specific SIV in Afr…

2010

#11076

Odorant reception in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.

CAREY, Allison F. WANG, Guirong CARLSON, John R. & et al.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Carey, Wang, ... Carlson. The authors showed that besides CO2, the odorant receptors in the malaria mosquistoes Anopheles gambiae are sensitive to other "mostly sweat" …