The impact of contact patterns of sexual networks on Zika virus spread: A case study in Costa Rica

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Highlights：

• A heterosexual network-based model with mosquito-human transmission is established based on Zika virus outbreak data in Costa Rica.

• A deadline for the authority to prevent ZIKV spread by changing degree heterogeneity of heterosexual network is discovered.

• The sexually infected risk of females and males during the process of ZIKV infection is expressed explicitly.

摘要

•A heterosexual network-based model with mosquito-human transmission is established based on Zika virus outbreak data in Costa Rica.•A deadline for the authority to prevent ZIKV spread by changing degree heterogeneity of heterosexual network is discovered.•The sexually infected risk of females and males during the process of ZIKV infection is expressed explicitly.

论文关键词：Zika virus,Sexual contact patterns,Network,Time threshold of deleting nodes with large degree

论文评审过程：Received 12 July 2019, Revised 28 September 2020, Accepted 25 October 2020, Available online 18 November 2020, Version of Record 18 November 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2020.125765