Modeling the transmission dynamics of Ebola virus disease in Liberia

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Xia, Zhi Qiang ^a,b   Wang, Shi Fu ^c   Li, Shen Long ^d   Huang, Liu Yu ^d   Zhang, Wen Yi ^d   Sun, Gui Quan ^a   Gai, Zhong Tao ^c   Jin, Zhen ^a  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; LIBERIA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

ALGORITHMS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LIBERIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84941073373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13857     Document Type: Article

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