Risk of Coinfection Outbreaks in Temporal Networks: A Case Study of a Hospital Contact Network

We study the spreading of cooperative infections in an empirical temporal network of contacts between people, including health care workers and patients, in a hospital. The system exhibits a phase transition leading to one or several endemic branches, depending on the connectivity pattern and the te...

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Main Authors: Jorge P. Rodríguez, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Víctor M. Eguíluz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphy.2017.00046/full