Parameter Scaling for Epidemic Size in a Spatial Epidemic Model with Mobile Individuals.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, serious infectious diseases tend to transcend national borders and widely spread in a global scale. The incidence and prevalence of epidemics are highly influenced not only by pathogen-dependent disease characteristics such as the force of infection, the latent period, and the infectious period, but also by human mobility and contact patterns. However, the effect of heterogeneous mobility of individuals on epidemic outcomes is not fully understood. Here, we aim to elucidate how spatial mobility of individuals contributes to the final epidemic size in a spatial susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered (SEIR) model with mobile individuals in a square lattice. After illustrating the interplay between the mobility parameters and the other parameters on the spatial epidemic spr

SUBMITTER: Urabe CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5156435 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature