Lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM), is a rodent-borne viral infectious disease that presents as aseptic meningitis, encephalitis or meningoencephalitis. Its causative agent is the Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus (LCMV), a member of the family Arenaviridae. The name was coined by Charles Armstrong in 1934.
LCMV is an enveloped virus with a helical nucleocapsid, it has an ambisense, single-stranded, segmented (S segment and L segment), RNA genom...
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