Identifying human encounters that shape the transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae and other acute respiratory infections

Although patterns of social contacts are believed to be an important determinant of infectious disease transmission, it remains unclear how the frequency and nature of human interactions shape an individual’s risk of infection. We analysed data on daily social encounters individually matched to data...

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Main Authors: Olivier le Polain de Waroux, Stefan Flasche, Adam J Kucharski, Celine Langendorf, Donny Ndazima, Juliet Mwanga-Amumpaire, Rebecca F Grais, Sandra Cohuet, W John Edmunds
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-12-01
Series:Epidemics
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436518300446