Objective
Lassa fever is a zoonotic disease caused by Lassa virus. The disease is endemic in West Africa. Hemorrhagic courses of Lassa fever are associated with high mortality. It is estimated that 100,000 to 500,000 infections occur each year because of transmission of Lassa virus from its rodent reservoir (Mastomys natalensis) to human. Rodent control measures could reduce the risk of rodent-human transmission. However, the dynamics of virus-rodent interaction is poorly understood. This information is crucial to design efficient and cost-effective rodent control measures. Therefore, objective of the research project is to enhance knowledge on rodent ecology and molecular taxonomy as well as on microphylogeny, transmission, and persistence pattern of the virus in the rodent population. A second objective is the improvement of laboratory skills of the applicant in the area of virology and molecular biology to facilitate a multidisciplinary Lassa virus research linking rodent ecology, molecular epidemiology, diagnostics, and virology.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences sociology demography mortality
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology virology
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology
- medical and health sciences health sciences public health epidemiology zoonosis
- natural sciences biological sciences molecular biology
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008
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Coordinator
20359 Hamburg
Germany
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