Duration of ebola virus RNA persistence in semen of survivors: Population-level estimates and projections

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 48, 2015, Pages

  Eggo, Rosalind M ^a   Watson, C H ^a   Camacho, A ^a   Kucharski, A J ^a   Funk, S ^a   Edmunds, W J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AFRICA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INCIDENCE; PATHOGENICITY; RISK FACTOR; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SPERM; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVOR; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; RNA, VIRAL; SEMEN; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84949470004     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.48.30083     Document Type: Article

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