Dynamics and control of diseases in networks with community structure.

The dynamics of infectious diseases spread via direct person-to-person transmission (such as influenza, smallpox, HIV/AIDS, etc.) depends on the underlying host contact network. Human contact networks exhibit strong community structure. Understanding how such community structure affects epidemics ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marcel Salathé, James H Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-04-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2851561?pdf=render