Outbreak analysis of an SIS epidemic model with rewiring
This paper is devoted to the analysis of the early dynamics of an SIS epidemic model defined on networks. The model, introduced by Gross, D'Lima and Blasius in 2006, is based on the pair-approximation formalism and assumes that, at a given rewiring rate, susceptible nodes replace an infected ne...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:150634 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/150634 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/s00285-012-0555-4 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Pair approximation Network epidemic models Rewiring, basic reproduction number |
| Sumario: | This paper is devoted to the analysis of the early dynamics of an SIS epidemic model defined on networks. The model, introduced by Gross, D'Lima and Blasius in 2006, is based on the pair-approximation formalism and assumes that, at a given rewiring rate, susceptible nodes replace an infected neighbour by a new susceptible neighbour randomly selected among the pool of susceptible nodes in the population. The analysis uses a pair closure that improves the widely assumed in epidemic models defined on regular and homogeneous networks, and applies it to better understand the early epidemic spread on Poisson, exponential, and (truncated) scale-free networks. Two extinction scenarios, one dominated by transmission and the other one by rewiring, are characterized by considering the limit system of the model equations close to the beginning of the epidemic. Moreover, an analytical condition on the model parameters for the occurrence of a bistability region is obtained. |
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