TY - JOUR AU - Drake, John AU - Bakach, Iurii AU - Just, Matthew AU - O’Regan, Suzanne AU - Gambhir, Manoj AU - Fung, Isaac Chun-Hai T1 - Transmission Models of Historical Ebola Outbreaks T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2015 VL - 21 IS - 8 SP - 1447 SN - 1080-6059 AB - To guide the collection of data under emergent epidemic conditions, we reviewed compartmental models of historical Ebola outbreaks to determine their implications and limitations. We identified future modeling directions and propose that the minimal epidemiologic dataset for Ebola model construction comprises duration of incubation period and symptomatic period, distribution of secondary cases by infection setting, and compliance with intervention recommendations. KW - Ebola virus KW - viruses KW - modeling KW - transmission models KW - outbreaks DO - 10.3201/eid2108.141613 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/8/14-1613_article ER - End of Reference