Disease spread in small-size directed networks: Epidemic threshold, correlation between links to and from nodes, and clustering

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 260, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 402-411

  Moslonka Lefebvre, Mathieu ^a,b,c   Pautasso, Marco ^c   Jeger, Mike J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commercial transport; Disease management; Food webs; Initial conditions; Spread of ideas; Susceptible infected susceptible (SIS)

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD WEB; MODELING; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION RISK; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM;

EID: 69249219045     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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