Controlling Ebola: key role of Ebola treatment centres

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. Electronic address: gchowell@asu.edu.
² Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

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Gerardo Chowell et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015 Feb.

. 2015 Feb;15(2):139-41.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)71086-2. Epub 2015 Jan 7.

¹ School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. Electronic address: gchowell@asu.edu.
² Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

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Spatiotemporal spread of the 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions: a computational modelling analysis.
Merler S, Ajelli M, Fumanelli L, Gomes MF, Piontti AP, Rossi L, Chao DL, Longini IM Jr, Halloran ME, Vespignani A. Merler S, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015 Feb;15(2):204-11. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)71074-6. Epub 2015 Jan 7. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015. PMID: 25575618 Free PMC article.

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