A network model for the propagation of hepatitis C with HIV co-infection

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AA6C83MaRDI QIDQ3303048zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arnaud Nucit, Julien Randon-Furling

Publication date 11 August 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01532

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30)

Abstract: We define and examine a model of epidemic propagation for a virus such as Hepatitis C (with HIV co-infection) on a network of networks, namely the network of French urban areas. One network level is that of the individual interactions inside each urban area. The second level is that of the areas themselves, linked by individuals travelling between these areas and potentially helping the epidemic spread from one city to another. We choose to encode the second level of the network as extra, special nodes in the first level. We observe that such an encoding leads to sensible results in terms of the extent and speed of propagation of an epidemic, depending on its source point.

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• Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks
• Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks
• Power-law distributions in empirical data

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