The potential for sexual transmission to compromise control of Ebola virus outbreaks

Biology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Vinson, John E ^a   Drake, John M ^a   Rohani, Pejman ^a   Park, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola virus; Epidemic; Mathematical model; Population dynamics; Sexual transmission

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEST OUTBREAK; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VIRUS;

WEST AFRICA;

EBOLA VIRUS;

AFRICA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPERM; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AFRICA, WESTERN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEMEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL;

EID: 84992097479     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.1079     Document Type: Article

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