Mitigating the outbreak of an infectious disease over its life cycle: A diffusion-based approach.

We first qualitatively divide the cycle of an infectious disease outbreak into five distinct stages by following the adoption categorization from the diffusion theory. Next, we apply a standard mechanistic model, the susceptible-infected-recovered model, to simulate a variety of transmission scenari...

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Main Authors: Xiaoming Li, Conghu Wang, Bin Jiang, Hua Mei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280429