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SUBMITTER: Wells CR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6525480 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wells Chad R CR Pandey Abhishek A Parpia Alyssa S AS Fitzpatrick Meagan C MC Meyers Lauren A LA Singer Burton H BH Galvani Alison P AP
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20190429 20
Following the April 2018 reemergence of Ebola in a rural region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the virus spread to an urban center by early May. Within 2 wk of the first case confirmation, a vaccination campaign was initiated in which 3,017 doses were administered to contacts of cases and frontline healthcare workers. To evaluate the spatial dynamics of Ebola transmission and quantify the impact of vaccination, we developed a geographically explicit model that incorporates high-r ...[more]