Scale-free network of a dengue epidemic

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Title:	Scale-free network of a dengue epidemic
Authors:	Massad, E. Ma, S. Chen, M. Struchiner, C.J. Stollenwerk, N. Aguiar, M. Stollenwerk, N.
Keywords:	Dengue Power-law Scale-free network Singapore
Issue Date:	2008
Citation:	Massad, E., Ma, S., Chen, M., Struchiner, C.J., Stollenwerk, N., Aguiar, M., Stollenwerk, N. (2008). Scale-free network of a dengue epidemic. Applied Mathematics and Computation 195 (2) : 376-381. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2007.04.102
Abstract:	In this work we show that the dengue epidemic in the city of Singapore organized itself into a scale-free network of transmission as the 2000-2005 outbreaks progressed. This scale-free network of cluster comprised geographical breeding places for the aedes mosquitoes, acting as super-spreaders nodes in a network of transmission. The geographical organization of the network was analysed by the corresponding distribution of weekly number of new cases. Therefore, our hypothesis is that the distribution of dengue cases reflects the geographical organization of a transmission network, which evolved towards a power law as the epidemic intensity progressed until 2005. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Source Title:	Applied Mathematics and Computation
URI:	http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/26832
ISSN:	00963003
DOI:	10.1016/j.amc.2007.04.102
Appears in Collections:	Staff Publications

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