Geographic potential of disease caused by Ebola and Marburg viruses in Africa

Acta Tropica

Volumn 162, Issue , 2016, Pages 114-124

  Peterson, A Townsend ^a   Samy, Abdallah M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Africa; Ecological niche; Marburg; Sudan ebolavirus; Ta Forest ebolavirus; Transmission; Zaire ebolavirus

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRAL DISEASE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MARBURG HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; MARBURGVIRUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PREDICTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNCERTAINTY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; TRANSMISSION;

ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS;

EBOLA VIRUS; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; MARBURGVIRUS; SUDAN EBOLAVIRUS; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS;

AFRICA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MARBURGVIRUS;

EID: 84977267431     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.06.012     Document Type: Article

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