Individual-Based Modelling of Animal Brucellosis Spread with the Use of Complex Networks
Eduardo R. Pinto, Erivelton G. Nepomuceno, Andriana S. L. O. Campanharo
Abstract
The principal purpose of this work was to study the spread of brucellosis in the state of São Paulo with the help of the complex network theory and to propose control measures for its eradication. For this, the scale-free model of complex networks, widely known in the literature, was used. The effect of vaccination was verified in each of the municipalities in the state of São Paulo and it was observed that when heterogeneity is not taken into account, vaccination becomes ineffective for the eradication of the disease.
Topics & Concepts
BrucellosisVaccinationBiostatisticsDisease controlDemographyGeographyOperations researchMedicineCartographyVeterinary medicineSociologyEnvironmental healthVirologyEngineeringPublic healthPathologyBrucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatmentCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesAnimal Disease Management and Epidemiology