The dynamics of spreading and immune strategies of sexually transmitted diseases on scale-free network

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 365, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 210-219

  Lou, Jie ^a   Ruggeri, Tommaso ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidemic threshold; Proportional immunization strategy; Scale free network; STDs; Targeted immunization strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 73449103156     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: 10960813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2009.10.044     Document Type: Article

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