A mechanistic spatio-temporal framework for modelling individual-to-individual transmission—With an application to the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola outbreak

• Max S. Y. Lau ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Max S. Y. Lau, Gavin J. Gibson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: msylau@princeton.edu

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0420-9736

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• Gavin J. Gibson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Max S. Y. Lau, Gavin J. Gibson

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Hola Adrakey,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0481-8569

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• Amanda McClelland,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Steven Riley,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7904-4804

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• Jon Zelner,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• George Streftaris,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Sebastian Funk,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Jessica Metcalf,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Benjamin D. Dalziel,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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• Bryan T. Grenfell

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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