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Asymmetric percolation drives a double transition in sexual contact networks

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, August 2017
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Title
Asymmetric percolation drives a double transition in sexual contact networks
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, August 2017
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1703073114
Pubmed ID
28790185
Authors

Antoine Allard, Benjamin M. Althouse, Samuel V. Scarpino, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

Abstract

Zika virus (ZIKV) exhibits unique transmission dynamics in that it is concurrently spread by a mosquito vector and through sexual contact. Due to the highly asymmetric durations of infectiousness between males and females-it is estimated that males are infectious for periods up to 10 times longer than females-we show that this sexual component of ZIKV transmission behaves akin to an asymmetric percolation process on the network of sexual contacts. We exactly solve the properties of this asymmetric percolation on random sexual contact networks and show that this process exhibits two epidemic transitions corresponding to a core-periphery structure. This structure is not present in the underlying contact networks, which are not distinguishable from random networks, and emerges because of the asymmetric percolation. We provide an exact analytical description of this double transition and discuss the implications of our results in the context of ZIKV epidemics. Most importantly, our study suggests a bias in our current ZIKV surveillance, because the community most at risk is also one of the least likely to get tested.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 42 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 21%
Unspecified 5 12%
Other 4 10%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Other 10 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 12 29%
Unspecified 8 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 12%
Mathematics 4 10%
Other 8 19%

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 62. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 December 2017.
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