Time from Infection to Disease and Infectiousness for Ebola Virus Disease, a Systematic Review

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1135-1140

  Velásquez, Gustavo E ^a,b   Aibana, Omowunmi ^a,c   Ling, Emilia J ^d   Diakite, Ibrahim ^f   Mooring, Eric Q ^d,e   Murray, Megan B ^b,d,f  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Department of Epidemiology ^*  (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola; incubation period; latent period; systematic review; transmission

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUDAN EBOLAVIRUS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; TIME FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LATENCY;

EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE INCUBATION PERIOD; TIME FACTORS; VIRUS LATENCY;

EID: 84942163064     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ531     Document Type: Review

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