Data fitting and scenario analysis of vaccination in the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia

Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 187-201

  Xie, Zhifu ^a  

^a The University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction number; Ebolavirus; Liberia; Vaccination; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EBOLA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CASE FATALITY RATE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIBERIA; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 85068339406     PISSN: 22109099     EISSN: 22336052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.24171/j.phrp.2019.10.3.10     Document Type: Article

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