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  • Network Science
  • Computational Biology

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  • Preventing infectious disease epidemics is a global challenge.
  • Dengue, a mosquito-borne illness, spreads via complex bipartite networks.
  • Climate change facilitates the expansion of Aedes aegypti mosquito populations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the network morphology of dengue transmission.
  • To analyze the spread dynamics considering multiple dengue serotypes.
  • To identify key drivers of dengue epidemic outbreaks.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an agent-based model to simulate dengue transmission.
  • Evaluated degree, betweenness, and closeness distributions in bipartite networks.
  • Analyzed interactions up to the second order for four dengue serotypes.

Main Results:

  • Observed scale-free features and heavy tails in degree and betweenness distributions.
  • Quantified the decay of the degree distribution using a q-Gaussian fit.
  • Identified human-to-human and human-to-mosquito interactions as primary drivers of spread.

Conclusions:

  • Dengue transmission networks exhibit complex network characteristics.
  • Controlling the Aedes aegypti mosquito vector is crucial for epidemic prevention.
  • Agent-based modeling provides valuable insights for public health strategies against dengue.