Spatial heterogeneity in simple deterministic SIR models assessed ecologically

Waters, E K; Sidhu, H S; Mercer, Geoffry

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Spatial heterogeneity in simple deterministic SIR models assessed ecologically

Date

2013

Authors

Waters, E K

Sidhu, H S

Mercer, Geoffry

Publisher

Australian Mathematical Society

Abstract

Patchy or divided populations can be important to infectious disease transmission. We first show that Lloyd's mean crowding index, an index of patchiness from ecology, appears as a term in simple deterministic epidemic models of the SIR type. Using these