Impact of bed capacity on spatiotemporal shifts in Ebola transmission

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 46, 2015, Pages 14125-14126

  Townsend, Jeffrey P ^a   Skripc, Laura A ^a   Galvanib, Alison P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; ISOLATION HOSPITAL; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SIERRA LEONE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STAFF TRAINING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MALE; TRANSMISSION;

EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84966430185     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518484112     Document Type: Note

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