Network Analysis of MERS Coronavirus within Households, Communities, and Hospitals to Identify Most Centralized and Super-Spreading in the Arabian Peninsula, 2012 to 2016

Figure 5

Network contact structure for the spread of MERS-CoV infection in the KSA between 2012 and 2016 for top 10 influential nodes based on degree and betweenness centrality in Table 2. Larger sized nodes implies (a) degree centrality and (b) betweenness centrality. The circle nodes are females while square nodes are males. The node colours represent contact history: pink is the index patient, green is hospital linked, blue is community or family linked, red denotes the primary contact, and white nodes represent unknown contact history.

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