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SUBMITTER: Wang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3601479 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20130101
The structured-population model has been widely used to study the spatial transmission of epidemics in human society. Many seminal works have demonstrated the impact of human mobility on the epidemic threshold, assuming that the contact pattern of individuals is mixing homogeneously. Inspired by the recent evidence of location-related factors in reality, we introduce two categories of location-specific heterogeneous human contact patterns into a phenomenological model based on the commuting and ...[more]