Lassa virus budding, SEM

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Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) showing lassa virus (Lassa mammarenavirus, LASV) particles (virions) budding off a cell. L. mammarenavirus is an arenavirus that causes Lassa haemorrhagic fever, a form of viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF), in humans and other primates. Image obtained at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.

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Photo credit: © National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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