Disease Extinction in the Presence of Random Vaccination Export

@article{citeulike:3111656, abstract = {We investigate disease extinction in an epidemic model described by a birth-death process. We show that, in the absence of vaccination, the effective entropic barrier for extinction displays scaling with the distance to the bifurcation point, with an unusual critical exponent. Even a comparatively weak Poisson-distributed random vaccination leads to an exponential increase in the extinction rate, with the exponent that strongly depends on the vaccination parameters.}, author = {Dykman, Mark I. and Schwartz, Ira B. and Landsman, Alexandra S.}, citeulike-article-id = {3111656}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PRLTAO000101000007078101000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v101/e078101}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.078101}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.078101}, journal = {Physical Review Letters}, keywords = {epidemic, noise, vaccination}, number = {7}, posted-at = {2008-09-05 21:48:37}, priority = {2}, publisher = {APS}, title = {Disease Extinction in the Presence of Random Vaccination}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.078101}, volume = {101}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3111656 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3111656 N2 - We investigate disease extinction in an epidemic model described by a birth-death process. We show that, in the absence of vaccination, the effective entropic barrier for extinction displays scaling with the distance to the bifurcation point, with an unusual critical exponent. Even a comparatively weak Poisson-distributed random vaccination leads to an exponential increase in the extinction rate, with the exponent that strongly depends on the vaccination parameters. IS - 7 JF - Physical Review Letters TI - Disease Extinction in the Presence of Random Vaccination PB - APS VL - 101 KW - epidemic KW - noise KW - vaccination AU - Dykman, Mark AU - Schwartz, Ira AU - Landsman, Alexandra PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.078101 ER -