Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 79, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.026101
Keywords
diseases; percolation; physiological models
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP-81273, PPR-79231]
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
- British Columbia Ministry of Health
- CIHR
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Mathematical models of infectious diseases, which are in principle analytically tractable, use two general approaches. The first approach, generally known as compartmental modeling, addresses the time evolution of disease propagation at the expense of simplifying the pattern of transmission. The second approach uses network theory to incorporate detailed information pertaining to the underlying contact structure among individuals while disregarding the progression of time during outbreaks. So far, the only alternative that enables the integration of both aspects of disease propagation simultaneously while preserving the variety of outcomes has been to abandon the analytical approach and rely on computer simulations. We offer an analytical framework, that incorporates both the complexity of contact network structure and the time progression of disease spread. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this framework is equally effective on finite- and infinite-size networks. This formalism can be equally applied to similar percolation phenomena on networks in other areas of science and technology.
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