ArticlePloS one2017
The impact of contact patterns on epidemic dynamics.
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- A cross-sectional study measuring contact patterns using diaries in an urban and a rural community in South Africa, 2018.BMC public health · 2021Article
- An SIS model for the epidemic dynamics with two phases of the human day-to-day activity.Journal of mathematical biology · 2020Article
- Per-Contact Infectivity of Hepatitis C Virus Acquisition in Association With Receptive Needle Sharing Exposures in a Prospective Cohort of Young Adult People who Inject Drugs in San Francisco, California.Open forum infectious diseases · 2020Article
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Abstract
In social networks, individuals have relationships with their neighbor nodes (acquaintance contacts) and also randomly contact other nodes without direct links (stranger contacts). However, these two types of contact patterns are rarely considered together. In this paper, we propose a modified SIS (Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible) model in which a node not only contacts neighbor nodes but also randomly contacts other nodes in the network. We implement the model on a scale-free network and study the influence of different types of contact patterns on epidemic dynamics as well as three possible strategies people adopt when disease outbreaks. The results show that a greater preference for acquaintance contacts makes a disease outbreak less likely. Moreover, the best protective strategy to control the disease is to adjust both the contact number and the contact pattern. In addition, the epidemic is more likely to be controlled when individuals take more information into consideration.
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