The previously unknown arenavirus, which is distantly related to the Lassa virus and Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, was characterized using the rapid and sensitive sequencing technology of 454 Life Sciences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox] Reference

However, it was still vital to conduct more tests to find out kind of arenavirus it was, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

There were only three cases to go on for the kind of arenavirus now discovered but "it looks like it is very lethal," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

South Africa has been provisionally identified as an arenavirus, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Sabia (arenavirus) This new virus was identified in 1990 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outbreak Of Fear] Reference

Junin (arenavirus) First identified in 1953 near the Junin River in northern Argentina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outbreak Of Fear] Reference

A mystery haemorrhagic fever that killed three people in South Africa has been identified as an arenavirus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

The virus belongs to the "old world" arenavirus, but until two weeks ago, they did not know they were dealing with a new virus.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Head of the NICD's Special Pathogens Unit, Dr Janusz T Paweska, said the arenavirus diagnosis came about after a number of tests.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

A new type of arenavirus has been identified as the cause of the deaths of four people since September, specialists at the National.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"The causative agent of the disease ... may be a rodent-born arenavirus related to the Lassa fever virus of West Africa," NICD's Dr.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Lassa fever is an acute viral illness of one to four weeks duration caused by Lassa virus, a member of the arenavirus family of viruses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 1] Reference

Machupo (arenavirus) This rodent-borne virus re-emerged last year in norther Bolivia when 7 family members were infected in Magdalena; 6 died.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outbreak Of Fear] Reference

Navy health experts based in Peru has identified a previously unrecognized arenavirus as the cause of a deadly hemorrhagic fever that emerged in a remote area of Bolivia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-Declaration Declaration] Reference

The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa called for urgent measures to prevent further transmission of the arenavirus that left four people dead in recent weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Some are brand-new, like the arenavirus that was first found only a few months ago when it caused a handful of deaths in Africa and was genetically sequenced and identified by Ian Lipkin at Columbia University.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Pandemics] Reference

Here we have harnessed the immunobiology of this arenavirus for vaccine delivery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Discovery of new arenavirus associated with hemorrhagic fever - first identified in nearly four decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

ST-294, a drug candidate for certain arenavirus pathogens, and other drug candidates for hemorrhagic fevers.    From Wordnik.com.  [GuruFocus Updates -] Reference

Immunology to test the application of its DepoVax ™ vaccine delivery system for influenza and arenavirus vaccines.    From Wordnik.com.  [GEN News Highlights] Reference

Tests determined it belonged to the arenavirus family, and that it is distantly related to Lassa fever, another disease found in Africa.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Johannesburg - A Morningside Medi-Clinic nurse is confirmed to have contracted the recently identified arenavirus which led to the deaths of three people.    From Wordnik.com.  [News24] Reference

Initially, it was feared he might have succumbed to an arenavirus, a highly contagious, often deadly group of hemorrhagic diseases endemic to parts of Africa. (snip).    From Wordnik.com.  [Flu Wiki Forum - Front Page] Reference

The nursing sister battling a new strain of the arenavirus is still not out of the woods but is making steady progress, a spokesperson at the Morningside Medi-Clinic said on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [IOL: News] Reference

The condition of the Morningside Medi-Clinic nurse who contracted the recently identified arenavirus is stable while two other people have been admitted for closer monitoring, the clinic said on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [IOL: News] Reference

Johannesburg - The condition of the Morningside Medi-Clinic nurse who contracted the recently identified arenavirus is stable while two other people have been admitted for closer monitoring, the clinic said on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [News24] Reference

"The causative agent of the disease ... may be a rodent-born arenavirus related to the Lassa fever virus of West Africa," the NICD's Dr Lucille Blumberg told reporters at the Charlotte Maxexe Johannesburg Academic Hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference

The mystery viral haemorrhagic fever that killed three people in South Africa has been provisionally identified as an arenavirus, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and the Department of Health said on Sunday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference

Johannesburg - A task team of medical experts has for a second time endorsed the infection control procedures at the Morningside Medi-Clinic following the death of three people infected with the arenavirus, the clinic's spokesperson said on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [News24] Reference

"This is a new strain of arenavirus, so it is actually unknown (how long it will take until a full recovery), so the doctors are very cautious.    From Wordnik.com.  [IOL: News] Reference

Dec. 3 on suspected arenavirus case).    From Wordnik.com.  [Flu Wiki Forum - Front Page] Reference