Spatiotemporal spread of the 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions: A computational modelling analysis

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 204-211

  Merler, Stefano ^a   Ajelli, Marco ^a   Fumanelli, Laura ^a   Gomes, Marcelo F C ^b   Piontti, Ana Pastore y ^b   Rossi, Luca ^c   Chao, Dennis L ^d   Longini, Ira M ^e   Halloran, M Elizabeth ^d,f   Vespignani, Alessandro ^b,g  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIBERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATIENT CARE; POPULATION DENSITY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INFECTION CONTROL; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LIBERIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84921319630     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)71074-6     Document Type: Article

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