Threshold effects for two pathogens spreading on a network

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2005-02-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0502373v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 108701 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.108701

Diseases spread through host populations over the networks of contacts between individuals, and a number of results about this process have been derived in recent years by exploiting connections between epidemic processes and bond percolation on networks. Here we investigate the case of two pathogens in a single population, which has been the subject of recent interest among epidemiologists. We demonstrate that two pathogens competing for the same hosts can both spread through a population only for intermediate values of the bond occupation probability that lie above the classic epidemic threshold and below a second higher value, which we call the coexistence threshold, corresponding to a distinct topological phase transition in networked systems.

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