Efficient sentinel surveillance strategies for preventing epidemics on networks.

ABSTRACT: Surveillance plays a crucial role in preventing emerging infectious diseases from becoming epidemic. In circumstances where it is possible to monitor the infection status of certain people, transport hubs, or hospitals, early detection of the disease allows interventions to be implemented before most of the damage can occur, or at least its impact can be mitigated. This paper addresses the question of which nodes we should select in a network of individuals susceptible to some infectious disease in order to minimize the number of casualties. By simulating disease outbreaks on a collection of empirical and synthetic networks we show that the best strategy depends on topological characteristics of the network. For highly modular or spatially embedded networks it is better to place the sentin

SUBMITTER: Colman E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6910701 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature