RT Journal Article
T1 Number of infections suffered by a focal individual in atwo-strain SIS-model with partial cross-immunity
A1 Gómez-Corral, Antonio
A1 Almaraz Luengo, Elena Salome
AB We study a stochastic model for the spread of two pathogen strains –termed type-1 and type-2 – amongst a homogeneously mixing community consisting of a finite number of individuals. In the model we assume partial cross-immunity,exogenous streams of infection, and that the degree of severity of a newly infective individual depends on who this infective individual was infected by. The aim is to characterize the joint probability distribution of the numbers M1 and M2 of type-1 and type-2 infections suffered by a focal individual during an outbreak of the disease. We present iterative procedures for computing the probability mass function of (M1, M2) under the assumption that the initial state of the focal individual is known, and a numerical study of the model is performed to investigate the influence of certain key parameters on the spread of resistant bacteria in hospitals.
PB Wiley
SN 0170-4214
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12455
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12455
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025