Use of Capture-Recapture to Estimate Underreporting of Ebola Virus Disease, Montserrado County, Liberia

Etienne Gignoux; Rachel Idowu; Luke Bawo; Lindis Hurum; Armand Sprecher; Mathieu Bastard; Klaudia Porten

doi:10.3201/eid2112.150756

Use of Capture-Recapture to Estimate Underreporting of Ebola Virus Disease, Montserrado County, Liberia

Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Dec;21(12):2265-7. doi: 10.3201/eid2112.150756.

Authors

Etienne Gignoux, Rachel Idowu, Luke Bawo, Lindis Hurum, Armand Sprecher, Mathieu Bastard, Klaudia Porten

No abstract available

Keywords: Ebola; Ebola virus disease; Liberia; data interpretation; disease notification; disease outbreaks; epidemiologic monitoring; epidemiology; statistical methods; viruses.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Disease Notification / methods*
Disease Notification / standards*
Disease Notification / statistics & numerical data
Ebolavirus / pathogenicity*
Epidemics / statistics & numerical data*
Health Services Research
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / diagnosis*
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / epidemiology
Humans
Liberia / epidemiology