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Traveling waves of infection in the Hantavirus epidemics

G. Abramson, V. M. Kenkre, T. L. Yates, R. R. Parmenter

physics.bio-pharXiv:physics/0203088

Abstract

Traveling waves are analyzed in a model of the Hantavirus infection of deer mice. The existence of two kinds of wave phenomena is predicted. An environmental parameter governs a transition between two regimes of propagation. In one of them the front of infection lags behind at a constant rate. In the other, fronts of susceptible and infected mice travel at the same speed, separated by a constant delay. The dependence of the delay on system parameters is analyzed numerically and through a piecewise linearization.

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