Traveling waves of infection in the Hantavirus epidemics
Biological Physics
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Populations and Evolution
Abstract
Traveling waves are analyzed in a model of the Hantavirus infection of deer mice. The existence of two kinds of wave phenomena is predicted. An environmental parameter governs a transition between two regimes of propagation. In one of them the front of infection lags behind at a constant rate. In the other, fronts of susceptible and infected mice travel at the same speed, separated by a constant delay. The dependence of the delay on system parameters is analyzed numerically and through a piecewise linearization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0203088,
title = {Traveling waves of infection in the Hantavirus epidemics},
author = {G. Abramson and V. M. Kenkre and T. L. Yates and R. R. Parmenter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0203088},
year = {2007}
}
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RevTex 4, 5 in-lined figures