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Spread of epidemic disease on networks

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ID23355174
AuthorsM E J Newman (0000-0002-0907-1660, Santa Fe Institute, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume66
Issue1
Pages016128-016128
Publication date2002-07-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhysical Review E (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1539-3755 • E-ISSN: 1550-2376
PublisherAmerican Physical Society (APS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1103/physreve.66.016128
PMID12241447
OpenAlexW2030539428
LanguageEN
Citations received94
References cited42

The study of social networks, and in particular the spread of disease on networks, has attracted considerable recent attention in the physics community. In this paper, we show that a large class of standard epidemiological models, the so-called susceptible/infective/removed (SIR) models can be solved exactly on a wide variety of networks. In addition to the standard but unrealistic case of fixed infectiveness time and fixed and uncorrelated probability of transmission between all pairs of individuals, we solve cases in which times and probabilities are nonuniform and correlated. We also consider one simple case of an epidemic in a structured population, that of a sexually transmitted disease in a population divided into men and women. We confirm the correctness of our exact solutions with numerical simulations of SIR epidemics on networks.

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