Modeling post-death transmission of Ebola: Challenges for inference and opportunities for control

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Weitz, Joshua S ^a   Dushoff, Jonathan ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TRANSMISSION;

ALGORITHMS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84924257328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08751     Document Type: Article

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