Modeling the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic – Agent-Based Simulations, temporal analysis and future predictions for Liberia and Sierra Leone

PLoS Currents

Volumn 7, Issue OUTBREAKS, 2015, Pages

  Siettos, Constantinos ^a   Anastassopoulou, Cleo ^b   Russo, Lucia ^c   Grigoras, Christos ^d   Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^d  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based simulations; Contact network; Ebola; EBOV; Effective reproductive number (Re); Equation free approach; Forecasting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SIMULATION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FATALITY; HUMAN; LIBERIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; SIERRA LEONE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84958576824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21573999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.8d5984114855fc425e699e1a18cdc6c9     Document Type: Article

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