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Article Dans Une Revue Virulence Année : 2014

Quantifying the epidemic spread of Ebola virus (EBOV) in Sierra Leone using phylodynamics

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Measuring epidemic parameters early in an outbreak is essential to inform control efforts. Using the viral genome sequence and collection date from 74 infections in the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in Sierra Leone, we estimate key epidemiological parameters such as infectious period duration (approximately 71 hours) and date of the first case in Sierra Leone (approximately April 25(th)). We also estimate the effective reproduction number, Re, (approximately 1.26), which is the number of secondary infections effectively caused by an infected individual and accounts for public health control measures. This study illustrates that phylodynamics methods, applied during the initial phase of an outbreak on fewer and more easily attainable data, can yield similar estimates to count-based epidemiological studies.
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hal-01567909 , version 1 (16-03-2019)

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Samuel Alizon, Sébastien Lion, Carmen Lia Murall, Jessica Lee Abbate. Quantifying the epidemic spread of Ebola virus (EBOV) in Sierra Leone using phylodynamics. Virulence, 2014, 5 (8), pp.825-827. ⟨10.4161/21505594.2014.976514⟩. ⟨hal-01567909⟩
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