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SUBMITTER: Danon L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7185876 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Danon Leon L House Thomas T Keeling Matt J MJ
Epidemics 20091114 4
Mathematical models of infectious disease spread are important tools for assessing the threat of a novel pathogen and offer the best information for mitigating an outbreak. Here we present a metapopulation model of disease spread in Great Britain defined at the level of electoral wards. Using data from the United Kingdom 2001 census and the National Travel Survey to define the amount of travel performed by individuals between wards, we examine the effect of assumptions on the regularity of trave ...[more]