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Simple model of epidemics with pathogen mutation.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics - 1 Mar 2002

Girvan Michelle, Callaway Duncan S, Newman M E J, Strogatz Steven H

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We study how the interplay between the memory immune response and pathogen mutation affects epidemic dynamics in two related models. The first explicitly models pathogen mutation and individual memory immune responses, with contacted individuals becoming infected only if they are exposed to strains that are significantly different from other strains in their memory repertoire. The second model is a reduction of...

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PMID: 11909117
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.031915

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