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Migration induced epidemics: Dynamics of flux-based multipatch models

Biological Physics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

Classical disease models use a mass action term as the interaction between infected and susceptible people in separate patches. We derive the equations when this interaction is a migration of people between patches. The results model what happens when a new population is moved into a region with endemic disease.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0510061,
  title  = {Migration induced epidemics: Dynamics of flux-based multipatch models},
  author = {Larry S. Liebovitch and Ira B. Schwartz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0510061},
  year   = {2009}
}

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25 pages

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