Models of epidemics: when contact repetition and clustering should be included
Open Access
- 29 June 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling
- Vol. 6 (1) , 11
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4682-6-11
Abstract
The spread of infectious disease is determined by biological factors, e.g. the duration of the infectious period, and social factors, e.g. the arrangement of potentially contagious contacts. Repetitiveness and clustering of contacts are known to be relevant factors influencing the transmission of droplet or contact transmitted diseases. However, we do not yet completely know under what conditions repetitiveness and clustering should be included for realistically modelling disease spread.Keywords
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