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Lassa fever is a virus disease of man characterized by generalized organ involvement resulting in manifestations of myositis, myocarditis, pneumonitis, encephalopathy, and signs of kidney involvement and hemorrhagic diathesis.
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Casals, J., Buckley, S.M. (1973). Lassa Fever Virus. In: Lehmann-Grube, F. (eds) Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus and Other Arenaviruses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65681-1_28
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