Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
EPIDEMIC SPREADING IN A COMPLEX NETWORK. |
| Authors: |
MINGFENG HE1 mfhe@dlut.edu.cn, BIN WANG2, XINHUA XIAO3, LEI SUN4 |
| Source: |
International Journal of Modern Physics C: Computational Physics & Physical Computation. Sep2007, Vol. 18 Issue 9, p1453-1458. 6p. 4 Graphs. |
| Subjects: |
Epidemics, Cluster grouping, Infection prevention, Etiology of diseases, Health behavior, Epidemiology |
| Abstract: |
In this paper, a complex network is constructed as comprising "clusters" which can be interpreted as a group of people with regular contacts. In each "cluster" individuals contact fully. A given individual contact individuals in other "clusters" by links. Then we study the dynamical behavior of the epidemiological model in this complex network, and discuss the influence of the intra-cluster infection probability, the extra-cluster infection probability, and infection time before being detected on epidemic dynamics. The results show that extra-cluster infection reduction, early detection and swift isolation are good infection control practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Engineering Source |
