Increased household transmission and immune escape of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron compared to Delta variants

N Jalali, HK Brustad, A Frigessi, EA MacDonald… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… and Delta variants in households using Norwegian contact … to Omicron infection in household
contacts compared to Delta, … infection can efficiently spread in households, while three-…

Quantifying the impact of immune escape on transmission dynamics of influenza

AW Park, JM Daly, NS Lewis, DJ Smith, JLN Wood… - Science, 2009 - science.org
… 729, published online 10 September) estimate that the rate of transmission within US
households puts influenza A 2009 H1N1 (the current pandemic “swine flu”) in the higher range of …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 variant biology: immune escape, transmission and fitness

AM Carabelli, TP Peacock, LG Thorne… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
… that they exhibit substantially altered transmissibility or immune escape, warranting close
monitoring. Each VOC showed transmission advantages over preceding variants and became …

[HTML][HTML] Population impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants with enhanced transmissibility and/or partial immune escape

M Bushman, R Kahn, BP Taylor, M Lipsitch… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
… There is some uncertainty regarding the transmissibility and immune escape of Beta because
estimates of these quantities are inversely correlated. If immune escape is minimal, Beta …

Household secondary attack rates of SARS-CoV-2 by variant and vaccination status: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

ZJ Madewell, Y Yang, IM Longini… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
… Patterns of virus exposure and presumed household transmission among persons with …
variants on household transmission in vaccinated and unvaccinated households is of …

High secondary attack rate and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in household transmission study participants, Finland 2020–2021

T Dub, A Solastie, L Hagberg, O Liedes… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Household transmission studies offer the opportunity to assess both secondary attack rate
(… In Spring 2020, we invited confirmed COVID-19 cases and their household members to four …

Lower levels of household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 VOC Omicron compared to Wild-type: an interplay between transmissibility and immune status

A Winkel, E Kozanli, M Haverkort, S Euser… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
household transmission dynamics of Omicron BA.2 VOC and 83 factors associated with
transmission on household, index case, and household … this by immune 287 escaping strategies.…

Genomic epidemiological analysis of SARS-CoV-2 household transmission

D Hare, G Gonzalez, J Dean… - Access …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
… Our findings demonstrate how WGS can elucidate the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2
infections within household clusters and provide useful information to support outbreak …

Household transmission of Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 under conditions of hybrid immunity—a prospective study in Germany

B Klee, S Diexer, C Xu, C Gottschick, C Hartmann… - Infection, 2024 - Springer
… two or more household members were invited to a prospective household transmission study
… In case of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test in a household, symptom diaries were completed for …

Influenza transmission in households during the 1918 pandemic

C Fraser, DAT Cummings, D Klinkenberg… - American journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
… Q is the probability of each individual’s not being infected from outside the household (aka
the escape probability). ϕ n (x) is the generating function for the distribution of infection rates …