Local, national, and regional viral haemorrhagic fever pandemic potential in Africa: a multistage analysis

The Lancet

Volumn 390, Issue 10113, 2017, Pages 2662-2672

  Pigott, David M ^a   Deshpande, Aniruddha ^a   Letourneau, Ian ^a   Morozoff, Chloe ^a   Reiner, Robert C ^a   Kraemer, Moritz U G ^b,e,f   Brent, Shannon E ^g   Bogoch, Isaac I ^h,i   Khan, Kamran ^g   Biehl, Molly H ^a   Burstein, Roy ^a   Earl, Lucas ^a   Fullman, Nancy ^a   Messina, Jane P ^b,c   Mylne, Adrian Q N ^j   Moyes, Catherine L ^d   Shearer, Freya M ^d   Bhatt, Samir ^k   Brady, Oliver J ^l   Gething, Peter W ^d   Weiss, Daniel J ^d   Tatem, Andrew J ^m,n   Caley, Luke ^o   De Groeve, Tom ^p   Vernaccini, Luca ^p   Golding, Nick ^q   Horby, Peter ^d   Kuhn, Jens H ^r   Laney, Sandra J ^s   Ng, Edmond ^l   Piot, Peter ^l   Sankoh, Osman ^t   Murray, Christopher J L ^a   Hay, Simon I ^a,d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^h TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^k IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^m UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ FLOWMINDER FOUNDATION   (Sweden)

^o The Start Network   (United Kingdom)

^p JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^q UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^r NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^s SJL Global Consulting   (United States)

^t Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHAD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHIOPIA; GUINEA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; PANDEMIC; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOMALIA; SOUTH SUDAN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS, VIRAL; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85031278261     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32092-5     Document Type: Article

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