Spreading of infectious diseases on heterogeneous populations: multi-type network approach

Details Spreading of infectious diseases on heterogeneous populations: multi-type network approach Spreading of infectious diseases on heterogeneous populations: multi-type network approach

2006-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0605001v1

Phys. Rev. E 74, 066114 (2006)

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

28 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.74.066114

I study the spreading of infectious diseases on heterogeneous populations. I represent the population structure by a contact-graph where vertices represent agents and edges represent disease transmission channels among them. The population heterogeneity is taken into account by the agent's subdivision in types and the mixing matrix among them. I introduce a type-network representation for the mixing matrix allowing an intuitive understanding of the mixing patterns and the analytical calculations. Using an iterative approach I obtain recursive equations for the probability distribution of the outbreak size as a function of time. I demonstrate that the expected outbreak size and its progression in time are determined by the largest eigenvalue of the reproductive number matrix and the characteristic distance between agents on the contact-graph. Finally, I discuss the impact of intervention strategies to halt epidemic outbreaks. This work provides both a qualitative understanding and tools to obtain quantitative predictions for the spreading dynamics on heterogeneous populations.

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