1Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
2Department of Paediatrics, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
3Department of Community Medicine, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
4Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
5Department of Surgery, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
6Department of Nursing Services, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
7Department of Medical Records, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Nigeria
8Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria
9Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
10Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
11Department of Biological Sciences and African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Redeemer's University, Ede, Nigeria
12Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
13Department of Microbiology, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria
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