This is a network of sexual contacts between people involved in the early spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), in the United States of America (USA). This network is the origin of the phrase "patient zero," referring a person from which an infection spreads initially. Edges are undirected.
Code | HI
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Internal name | hiv
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Name | HIV | |
Availability | ![]() | Dataset is available for download |
Consistency check | ![]() | Dataset passed all tests |
Category | Human contact network | |
Dataset timestamp | 1984 | |
Node meaning | AIDS patient | |
Edge meaning | Sexual contact | |
Network format | ![]() | Unipartite, undirected |
Edge type | ![]() | Unweighted, no multiple edges |
Loops | ![]() | Does not contain loops |
Snapshot | ![]() | Is a snapshot and likely to not contain all data |
Connectedness | ![]() | Only the largest connected component of the original data is included |
[1] | Jérôme Kunegis. KONECT – The Koblenz Network Collection. In Proc. Int. Conf. on World Wide Web Companion, pages 1343–1350, 2013. [ http ] |
[2] | David M. Auerbach, William W. Darrow, Harold W. Jaffe, and James W. Curran. Cluster of cases of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Patients linked by sexual contact. The Am. J. of Med., 76(3):487–492, 1984. |