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Markovian approach to tackle the interaction of simultaneous diseases

Soriano Panos, D ; Sharif University of Technology | 2019

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.100.062308
  3. Publisher: American Physical Society , 2019
  4. Abstract:
  5. The simultaneous emergence of several abrupt disease outbreaks or the extinction of some serotypes of multistrain diseases are fingerprints of the interaction between pathogens spreading within the same population. Here, we propose a general and versatile benchmark to address the unfolding of both cooperative and competitive interacting diseases. We characterize the explosive transitions between the disease-free and the epidemic regimes arising from the cooperation between pathogens and show the critical degree of cooperation needed for the onset of such abrupt transitions. For the competing diseases, we characterize the mutually exclusive case and derive analytically the transition point between the full-dominance phase, in which only one pathogen propagates, and the coexistence regime. Finally, we use this framework to analyze the behavior of the former transition point as the competition between pathogens is relaxed. © 2019 American Physical Society
  6. Keywords:
  7. Pathogens ; Transition flow ; Abrupt transition ; Co-existence regime ; Disease free ; Disease outbreaks ; Markovian ; Multi strains ; Serotypes ; Transition point ; Markov processes
  8. Source: Physical Review E ; Volume 100, Issue 6 , 2019 ; 24700045 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.062308