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ArticleTheoretical population biology2015

On the impact of epidemic severity on network immunization algorithms.

Bita Shams, Mohammad Khansari

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Article in Theoretical population biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bita ShamsUniversity of Tehran, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, Amir Abad, North Kargar Street, Tehran, 1439957131, Iran. Electronic address: shams.bita@ut.ac.ir.
Mohammad KhansariUniversity of Tehran, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, Amir Abad, North Kargar Street, Tehran, 1439957131, Iran. Electronic address: m.khansari@ut.ac.ir.
University of Tehran · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There has been much recent interest in the prevention and mitigation of epidemics spreading through contact networks of host populations. Here, we investigate how the severity of epidemics, measured by its infection rate, influences the efficiency of well-known vaccination strategies. In order to assess the impact of severity, we simulate the SIR model at different infection rates on various real and model immunized networks. An extensive analysis of our simulation results reveals that immunization algorithms, which efficiently reduce the nodes' average degree, are more effective in the mitigation of weak and slow epidemics, whereas vaccination strategies that fragment networks to small components, are more successful in suppressing severe epidemics.

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Epidemiologic MethodsImmunizationModels, BiologicalAlgorithmsAnimalsCommunicable Disease ControlCommunicable DiseasesComputer SimulationEpidemicsHumansVaccinationComplex networksEpidemic modelGraphImmunization algorithmsInfection rate

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PMID26505554
PMCPMC7126281
OpenAlexW1821072987

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