Spatial and temporal dynamics of superspreading events in the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic

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

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 2337-2342

  Lau, Max S Y ^a   Dalziel, Benjamin Douglas ^b   Funk, Sebastian ^c   McClelland, Amanda ^d   Tiffany, Amanda ^e   Riley, Steven ^f   Metcalf, C Jessica E ^a   Grenfell, Bryan T ^a,g  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies   (Switzerland)

^e EPICENTRE   (France)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Ebola; Offspring distribution; Superspreading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BURIAL; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; MARKOV CHAIN; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST AFRICAN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85014230100     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1614595114     Document Type: Article

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