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Infectious disease dynamics in metapopulations with heterogeneous transmission and recurrent mobility
Ist Teil von
New journal of physics, 2021-07, Vol.23 (7), p.73019
Ort / Verlag
Bristol: IOP Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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EZB Electronic Journals Library
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Abstract
Human mobility, contact patterns, and their interplay are key aspects of our social behavior that shape the spread of infectious diseases across different regions. In the light of new evidence and data sets about these two elements, epidemic models should be refined to incorporate both the heterogeneity of human contacts and the complexity of mobility patterns. Here, we propose a theoretical framework that allows accommodating these two aspects in the form of a set of Markovian equations. We validate these equations with extensive mechanistic simulations and derive analytically the epidemic threshold. The expression of this critical value allows us to evaluate its dependence on the specific demographic distribution, the structure of mobility flows, and the heterogeneity of contact patterns, thus shedding light on the microscopic mechanisms responsible for the epidemic detriment driven by recurrent mobility patterns reported in the literature.