Spatio-temporal Waves And Targeted Vaccination In Recurrent Epidemic Network Models
Oct 29th 2008Drug InformationBiology
The success of an infectious disease to invade a population is strongly controlled by the population’s specific connectivity structure. Here a network model is presented as an aid in understanding the role of social behaviour and heterogeneous connectivity in determining the spatio-temporal patterns of epidemic dynamics for diseases. We focus on sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis in which there is a period of temporary immunity after infection.
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