Modeling contact tracing in outbreaks with application to Ebola

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 384, Issue , 2015, Pages 33-49

  Browne, Cameron ^a   Gulbudak, Hayriye ^b   Webb, Glenn ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact tracing; Ebola; Epidemiology; Mathematical modeling

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; VIRAL DISEASE;

ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVENTION STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SIERRA LEONE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; AFRICA; ALGORITHM; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION;

WEST AFRICA;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ALGORITHMS; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84940380627     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.08.004     Document Type: Article

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