A comprehensive database of the geographic spread of past human Ebola outbreaks

Scientific Data

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mylne, Adrian ^a   Brady, Oliver J ^a   Huang, Zhi ^a   Pigott, David M ^a   Golding, Nick ^a   Kraemer, Moritz U G ^a   Hay, Simon I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; TRANSMISSION;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS;

EID: 84919759834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20524463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2014.42     Document Type: Article

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