2011
DOI: 10.1155/2011/284909
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Networks and the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease

Abstract: The science of networks has revolutionised research into the dynamics of interacting elements. It could be argued that epidemiology in particular has embraced the potential of network theory more than any other discipline. Here we review the growing body of research concerning the spread of infectious diseases on networks, focusing on the interplay between network theory and epidemiology. The review is split into four main sections, which examine: the types of network relevant to epidemiology; the multitude of… Show more

Help me understand this report
View preprint versions

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
4
1

Citation Types

5
329
1
2

Year Published

2012
2012
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
7
3

Relationship

1
9

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 375 publications
(337 citation statements)
references
References 184 publications
(280 reference statements)
5
329
1
2
Order By: Relevance
“…They appear in numerous complex systems including in nanoscience [3], epidemiology [4,5], forest fires [6], social networks [7,8], and wireless communications [9][10][11]. Such networks exhibit a general phenomenon called percolation [12,13], where at a critical connection probability (controlled by the node density), the largest connected component (cluster) of the network jumps abruptly from being independent of system size (microscopic) to being proportional to system size (macroscopic).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They appear in numerous complex systems including in nanoscience [3], epidemiology [4,5], forest fires [6], social networks [7,8], and wireless communications [9][10][11]. Such networks exhibit a general phenomenon called percolation [12,13], where at a critical connection probability (controlled by the node density), the largest connected component (cluster) of the network jumps abruptly from being independent of system size (microscopic) to being proportional to system size (macroscopic).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Without prejudice to the generality of Section 2, we now focus our study to spreading processes [15,16,17]. An epidemiological terminology is used: whatever propagates among neighbouring nodes, be it desirable or not, is called an infection.…”
Section: Application To Spreading Dynamicsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is conceivable that rumor/disease transmission and virus/worm transmission are easily understood in a social network and computer network, respectively, if we understand the network well. In general, it is recognized that epidemic threshold in a network is given by the basic reproduction ratio [22], but it is also related to the largest eigen value of the adjacency matrix of the network [23], to be exact it is reciprocal. This has motivated us to explore the relation between cliques of a graph and the eigen values of the adjacency matrix of the graph.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%