Natural Human Mobility Patterns and Spatial Spread of Infectious Diseases

Physical Review X

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-5

  Belik, Vitaly ^a,e   Geisel, Theo ^a,b   Brockmann, Dirk ^c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex Systems; Interdisciplinary Physics; Statistical Physics

Indexed keywords

DESTINATION LOCATION; DIFFUSIVE SYSTEM; DYNAMICAL FEATURES; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; EFFECTIVE FORCES; EPIDEMIC SPREAD; HUMAN MOBILITY; INDIVIDUAL MOBILITY; INFECTION MODELS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS; METAPOPULATIONS; NATURAL FEATURES; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; REACTION DIFFUSION; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGY; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 83655195346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.1.011001     Document Type: Article

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