Influence of contact definitions in assessment of the relative importance of social settings in disease transmission risk.

BACKGROUND: Realistic models of disease transmission incorporating complex population heterogeneities require input from quantitative population mixing studies. We use contact diaries to assess the relative importance of social settings in respiratory pathogen spread using three measures of person c...

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Main Authors: Kirsty J Bolton, James M McCaw, Kristian Forbes, Paula Nathan, Garry Robins, Philippa Pattison, Terry Nolan, Jodie McVernon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3281034?pdf=render