Chaotic desynchronization of multistrain diseases

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2005

Journal / Book Title

Physical Review E

Abstract

Multistrain diseases are diseases that consist of several strains, or serotypes. The serotypes may interact by antibody-dependent enhancement rADE, in which infection with a single serotype is asymptomatic, but infection with a second serotype leads to serious illness accompanied by greater infectivity. It has been observed from serotype data of dengue hemorrhagic fever that outbreaks of the four serotypes occur asynchronously. Both autonomous and seasonally driven outbreaks were studied in a model containing ADE. For sufficiently small ADE, the number of infectives of each serotype synchronizes, with outbreaks occurring in phase. When the ADE increases past a threshold, the system becomes chaotic, and infectives of each serotype desynchronize. However, certain groupings of the primary and secondary infectives remain synchronized even in the chaotic regime.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevE.72.066201

Published Citation

Schwartz, I. B., Shaw, L. B., Cummings, D. A., Billings, L., McCrary, M., & Burke, D. S. (2005). Chaotic desynchronization of multistrain diseases. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys, 72(6 Pt 2), 066201. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.72.066201

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