Seroprevalence of anti-Lassa Virus IgG antibodies in three districts of Sierra Leone: A cross-sectional, population-based study

Donald S. Grant; Emily J. Engel; Nicole Roberts Yerkes; Lansana Kanneh; James Koninga; Michael A. Gbakie; Foday Alhasan; Franklyn B. Kanneh; Ibrahim Mustapha Kanneh; Fatima K. Kamara; Mambu Momoh; Mohamed S. Yillah; Momoh Foday; Adaora Okoli; Ashley Zeoli; Caroline Weldon; Christopher M. Bishop; Crystal Zheng; Jessica Hartnett; Karissa Chao; Kayla Shore; Lilia I. Melnik; Mallory Mucci; Nell G. Bond; Philip Doyle; Rachael Yenni; Rachel Podgorski; Samuel C. Ficenec; Lina Moses; Jeffrey G. Shaffer; Robert F. Garry; John S. Schieffelin

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0010938

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Seroprevalence of anti-Lassa Virus IgG antibodies in three districts of Sierra Leone: A cross-sectional, population-based study

Donald S. Grant ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Donald S. Grant, Emily J. Engel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Kenema, Sierra Leone, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Emily J. Engel ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Donald S. Grant, Emily J. Engel

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: eengel@tulane.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Sections of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9979-4522

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Nicole Roberts Yerkes,

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Sections of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Lansana Kanneh,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Kenema, Sierra Leone
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James Koninga,

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Kenema, Sierra Leone
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Michael A. Gbakie,

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Kenema, Sierra Leone
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Foday Alhasan,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Kenema, Sierra Leone
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Franklyn B. Kanneh,

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Kenema, Sierra Leone
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Ibrahim Mustapha Kanneh,

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Kenema, Sierra Leone
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Fatima K. Kamara,

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Kenema, Sierra Leone
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Mambu Momoh,

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliations Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Kenema, Sierra Leone, Eastern Technical University of Sierra Leone, Kenema, Sierra Leone
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Mohamed S. Yillah,

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Kenema, Sierra Leone
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Momoh Foday,

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Lassa Fever Program, Kenema Government Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Kenema, Sierra Leone
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Adaora Okoli,

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Ashley Zeoli,

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Sections of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Caroline Weldon,

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Christopher M. Bishop,

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Crystal Zheng,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Jessica Hartnett,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Sections of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Karissa Chao,

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Kayla Shore,

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Lilia I. Melnik,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Mallory Mucci,

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Nell G. Bond,

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Philip Doyle,

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Rachael Yenni,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Rachel Podgorski,

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Samuel C. Ficenec,

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Lina Moses,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Jeffrey G. Shaffer,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Robert F. Garry,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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John S. Schieffelin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Sections of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Seroprevalence of anti-Lassa Virus IgG antibodies in three districts of Sierra Leone: A cross-sectional, population-based study

Donald S. Grant,
Emily J. Engel,
Nicole Roberts Yerkes,
Lansana Kanneh,
James Koninga,
Michael A. Gbakie,
Foday Alhasan,
Franklyn B. Kanneh,
Ibrahim Mustapha Kanneh,
Fatima K. Kamara

Published: February 9, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010938

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