Online respondent-driven sampling for studying contact patterns relevant for the spread of close-contact pathogens: a pilot study in Thailand.

Online respondent-driven sampling for studying contact patterns relevant for the spread of close-contact pathogens: a pilot study in Thailand.

BACKGROUND: Information on social interactions is needed to understand the spread of airborne infections through a population. Previous studies mostly collected egocentric information of independent respondents with self-reported information about contacts. Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a samp...

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Main Authors: Mart L Stein, Jim E van Steenbergen, Charnchudhi Chanyasanha, Mathuros Tipayamongkholgul, Vincent Buskens, Peter G M van der Heijden, Wasamon Sabaiwan, Linus Bengtsson, Xin Lu, Anna E Thorson, Mirjam E E Kretzschmar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3885693?pdf=render

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