Sampling for global epidemic models and the topology of an international airport network.

Mathematical models that describe the global spread of infectious diseases such as influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and tuberculosis (TB) often consider a sample of international airports as a network supporting disease spread. However, there is no consensus on how many cities sh...

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Main Authors: Georgiy Bobashev, Robert J Morris, D Michael Goedecke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-09-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2522280?pdf=render