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Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks
Ebola is a deadly virus that causes frequent disease outbreaks in the human population. In this study, we analyse its rate of new introductions, case fatality ratio, and potential to spread from person to person. The analysis is performed for all completed outbreaks and for a scenario where these ar...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381931/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25217532 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03908 |
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| description | Ebola is a deadly virus that causes frequent disease outbreaks in the human population. In this study, we analyse its rate of new introductions, case fatality ratio, and potential to spread from person to person. The analysis is performed for all completed outbreaks and for a scenario where these are augmented by a more severe outbreak of several thousand cases. The results show a fast rate of new outbreaks, a high case fatality ratio, and an effective reproductive ratio of just less than 1. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03908.001 |
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| spelling | pubmed-43819312015-04-03 Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks House, Thomas eLife Epidemiology and Global Health Ebola is a deadly virus that causes frequent disease outbreaks in the human population. In this study, we analyse its rate of new introductions, case fatality ratio, and potential to spread from person to person. The analysis is performed for all completed outbreaks and for a scenario where these are augmented by a more severe outbreak of several thousand cases. The results show a fast rate of new outbreaks, a high case fatality ratio, and an effective reproductive ratio of just less than 1. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03908.001 eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2014-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4381931/ /pubmed/25217532 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03908 Text en Copyright © 2014, House http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
| spellingShingle | Epidemiology and Global Health House, Thomas Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks |
| title | Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks |
| title_full | Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks |
| title_fullStr | Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks |
| title_short | Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks |
| title_sort | epidemiological dynamics of ebola outbreaks |
| topic | Epidemiology and Global Health |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381931/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25217532 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03908 |
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