Potential for large outbreaks of Ebola virus disease

Epidemics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2014, Pages 70-78

  Camacho, A ^a   Kucharski, A J ^a   Funk, S ^a   Breman, J ^b   Piot, P ^a   Edmunds, W J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

1976 Zaire outbreak; Basic reproduction number; Ebola; Mathematical model

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ALGORITHM; BAYES THEOREM; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84922331189     PISSN: 17554365     EISSN: 18780067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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