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SUBMITTER: Nunez-Lopez M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7486824 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Applied mathematical modelling 20200912
Most of the recent epidemic outbreaks in the world have as a trigger, a strong migratory component as has been evident in the recent Covid-19 pandemic. In this work we address the problem of migration of human populations and its effect on pathogen reinfections in the case of Dengue, using a Markov-chain susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) metapopulation model over a network. Our model postulates a general contact rate that represents a local measure of several factors: the population size of ...[more]