Early transmission dynamics of Ebola virus disease (evd), West Africa, march to august 2014

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 36, 2014, Pages 1-6

  Nishiura, H ^a   Chowell, G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BOOTSTRAPPING; DNA VIRUS INFECTION; EBOLA VIRUS; EBOLA VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84907757310     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.36.20894     Document Type: Article

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