Assessing the impact of travel restrictions on international spread of the 2014 west African Ebola epidemic

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 42, 2014, Pages

  Poletto, ^a,b   Gomes, M F ^c   Pastore y Piontti, A ^c   Rossi, L ^d   Bioglio, L ^a,b   Chao, D L ^e   Longini, I M ^f   Halloran, M E ^e   Colizza, V ^a,b,d   Vespignani, A ^c  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE LOUIS D EPIDÉMIOLOGIE ET DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^e Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AVIATION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EMPORIATRICS; EPIDEMIC; GUINEA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; KENYA; LIBERIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SIERRA LEONE; SIMULATION; TRAVEL RESTRICTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84908519505     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.42.20936     Document Type: Article

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