Spatiotemporal evolution of Ebola virus disease at sub-national level during the 2014 West Africa epidemic: Model scrutiny and data meagreness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Santermans, Eva ^a   Robesyn, Emmanuel ^b   Ganyani, Tapiwa ^a   Sudre, Bertrand ^b   Faes, Christel ^a   Quinten, Chantal ^b   Van Bortel, Wim ^b   Haber, Tom ^c   Kovac, Thomas ^a,c   Van Reeth, Frank ^c   Testa, Marco ^b,d   Hens, Niel ^a,e   Plachouras, Diamantis ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; GROWTH RATE; GUINEA; HEALTH SURVEY; INFECTION CONTROL; LIBERIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIERRA LEONE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

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

EID: 84955289562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147172     Document Type: Article

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