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arXiv:nlin/0302060 (nlin)
[Submitted on 27 Feb 2003]

Title:Promiscuity and the Evolution of Sexual Transmitted Diseases

Authors:Sebastian Goncalves, Marcelo Kuperman, Marcelo Ferreira da Costa Gomes
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Abstract: We study the relation between different social behaviors and the onset of epidemics in a model for the dynamics of sexual transmitted diseases. The model considers the society as a system of individual sexuated agents that can be organized in couples and interact with each other. The different social behaviors are incorporated assigning what we call a promiscuity value to each individual agent. The individual promiscuity is taken from a distributions and represents the daily probability of going out to look for a sexual partner, abandoning its eventual mate. In terms of this parameter we find a threshold for the epidemic which is much lower than the classical fully mixed model prediction, i.e. $R_0$ (basic reproductive number) $= 1$. Different forms for the distribution of the population promiscuity are considered showing that the threshold is weakly sensitive to them. We study the homosexual and the heterosexual case as well.
Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures
Subjects: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO); Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG); Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
Cite as: arXiv:nlin/0302060 [nlin.AO]
  (or arXiv:nlin/0302060v1 [nlin.AO] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.nlin/0302060
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4371%2803%2900429-1

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From: Marcelo Kuperman [view email]
[v1] Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:14:42 UTC (47 KB)
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