Unreported cases in the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic: Spatiotemporal variation, and implications for estimating transmission

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Dalziel, Benjamin D ^a   Lau, Max S Y ^b   Tiffany, Amanda ^c   McClelland, Amanda ^d   Zelner, Jon ^e   Bliss, Jessica R ^b   Grenfell, Bryan T ^b,f  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EPICENTRE   (France)

^d Health in Emergencies   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTICLE; CASE FATALITY RATE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SIERRA LEONE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION;

DISEASE NOTIFICATION; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIERRA LEONE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85041737065     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006161     Document Type: Article

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