Ebola virus infection modeling and identifiability problems

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Nguyen, Van Kinh ^a   Binder, Sebastian C ^a   Boianelli, Alessandro ^a   Meyer Hermann, Michael ^a,b   Hernandez Vargas, Esteban A ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ebola; EBOV; Identifiability; Kinetics; Mathematical modeling; Viral dynamics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CELL DEATH; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EBOLA VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 84930945348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00257     Document Type: Article

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