Original Research published: 21 June 2016 doi: 10.3389/fvets.2016.00048
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Karin Lebl1*, Hartmut H. K. Lentz1, Beate Pinior2 and Thomas Selhorst3 Institute of Epidemiology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald, Insel Riems, Germany, 2 Institute for Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 3 Unit Epidemiology, Statistics and Mathematical Modelling, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany 1
Edited by: Tariq Halasa, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Reviewed by: Lina Mur, Kansas State University, USA Beatriz Martínez-López, UC Davis, USA *Correspondence: Karin Lebl [email protected] Specialty section: This article was submitted to Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science Received: 17 March 2016 Accepted: 07 June 2016 Published: 21 June 2016 Citation: Lebl K, Lentz HHK, Pinior B and Selhorst T (2016) Impact of Network Activity on the Spread of Infectious Diseases through the German Pig Trade Network. Front. Vet. Sci. 3:48. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2016.00048
The trade of livestock is an important and growing economic sector, but it is also a major factor in the spread of diseases. The spreading of diseases in a trade network is likely to be influenced by how often existing trade connections are active. The activity α is defined as the mean frequency of occurrences of existing trade links, thus 0
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Karin Lebl1*, Hartmut H. K. Lentz1, Beate Pinior2 and Thomas Selhorst3 Institute of Epidemiology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald, Insel Riems, Germany, 2 Institute for Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 3 Unit Epidemiology, Statistics and Mathematical Modelling, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany 1
Edited by: Tariq Halasa, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Reviewed by: Lina Mur, Kansas State University, USA Beatriz Martínez-López, UC Davis, USA *Correspondence: Karin Lebl [email protected] Specialty section: This article was submitted to Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science Received: 17 March 2016 Accepted: 07 June 2016 Published: 21 June 2016 Citation: Lebl K, Lentz HHK, Pinior B and Selhorst T (2016) Impact of Network Activity on the Spread of Infectious Diseases through the German Pig Trade Network. Front. Vet. Sci. 3:48. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2016.00048
The trade of livestock is an important and growing economic sector, but it is also a major factor in the spread of diseases. The spreading of diseases in a trade network is likely to be influenced by how often existing trade connections are active. The activity α is defined as the mean frequency of occurrences of existing trade links, thus 0
