LASSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lassa mean? 

• LASSA (noun)
  The noun LASSA has 1 sense:

1. the sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers

  Familiarity information: LASSA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LASSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Tibet; Forbidden City; Lassa; Lhasa

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Lassa" is a part of...):

Sitsang; Thibet; Tibet; Xizang (an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas)

 Context examples 

These include the Ebola and Marburg, Lassa fever, and yellow fever viruses.

(Hemorrhagic Fevers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

The researchers now plan further vaccine tests against other strains of Lassa virus, and they want to further evaluate whether a single-dose quadrivalent vaccine appears safe and effective.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

The marmoset is genetically similar to humans and is a useful model for studying human diseases such as Lassa fever, multiple sclerosis, and viral infections.

(Marmoset, NCI Thesaurus)

Lassa 0043/LV/14 is circulating in an outbreak in Nigeria that began in 2018.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

For example, Lassa fever is limited to rural areas of West Africa where rats and mice carry the virus.

(Hemorrhagic Fevers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

The proteins are from Ebola virus (Kikwit strain), Sudan virus (Boniface strain, which also causes Ebola virus disease), Marburg virus (Angola strain) and Lassa virus (Josiah strain).

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

The scientists state that the addition of the Lassa virus component to their multivalent vaccine is an exciting research advance as they already had developed an investigational trivalent vaccine that provided protection against Ebola, Sudan and Marburg viruses.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

Importantly, the monkeys infected in the study were exposed to different strains of Sudan virus (Gulu) and Lassa virus (0043/LV/14) than those in the candidate vaccine to help the researchers determine whether the vaccine would be cross-protective.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)