Title
Scale-free network of a dengue epidemic
Abstract
In this work we show that the dengue epidemic in the city of Singapore organized itself into a scale-free network of transmission as the 2000–2005 outbreaks progressed. This scale-free network of cluster comprised geographical breeding places for the aedes mosquitoes, acting as super-spreaders nodes in a network of transmission. The geographical organization of the network was analysed by the corresponding distribution of weekly number of new cases. Therefore, our hypothesis is that the distribution of dengue cases reflects the geographical organization of a transmission network, which evolved towards a power law as the epidemic intensity progressed until 2005.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.amc.2007.04.102
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Power-law,Scale-free network,Dengue,Singapore
Transmission (mechanics),Transmission network,Operations research,Scale-free network,Aedes,Mathematics,Dengue fever
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
195
2
0096-3003
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
2.54
3
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eduardo Massad13312.99
Stefen Ma262.54
Mark Chen362.54
Cláudio José Struchiner4113.67
Nico Stollenwerk5165.89
Maíra Aguiar6113.88