The effect of host population heterogeneity on epidemic outbreaks

Martin Bootsma; Danny Chan; Odo Diekmann; Hisashi Inaba

doi:10.48550/arXiv.2308.06593

The effect of host population heterogeneity on epidemic outbreaks

Martin Bootsma, Danny Chan, Odo Diekmann, Hisashi Inaba

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Abstract

In the first part of this paper, we review old and new results about the influence of host population heterogeneity on (various characteristics of) epidemic outbreaks. In the second part we highlight a modelling issue that so far has received little attention: how do contact patterns, and hence transmission opportunities, depend on the size and the composition of the host population? Without any claim on completeness, we offer a range of potential (quasi-mechanistic) submodels. The overall aim of the paper is to describe the state-of-the-art and to catalyse new work.

Original language	English
Publisher	arXiv
Pages	1-39
Number of pages	39
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.06593
Publication status	Published - 12 Aug 2023

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36 pages, 5 figures

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q-bio.PE
math.DS

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