Evaluating subcriticality during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Enanoria, Wayne T A ^a   Worden, Lee ^b   Liu, Fengchen ^b   Gao, Daozhou ^b   Ackley, Sarah ^b   Scott, James ^b,c   Deiner, Michael ^a   Mwebaze, Ernest ^d   Ip, Wui ^b   Lietman, Thomas M ^a,b   Porco, Travis C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Mathematics and Statistics   (United States)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUINEA; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIBERIA; SIERRA LEONE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AFRICA; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA, WESTERN; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84949256900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140651     Document Type: Article

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