[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing social mixing patterns via weighted contact matrices from online and representative surveys

J Koltai, O Vásárhelyi, G Röst, M Karsai - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The unprecedented behavioural responses of societies have been evidently shaping the
COVID-19 pandemic, yet it is a significant challenge to accurately monitor the continuously …

Contacts in context: large-scale setting-specific social mixing matrices from the BBC Pandemic project

P Klepac, AJ Kucharski, AJK Conlan, S Kissler… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Social mixing patterns are crucial in driving transmission of infectious diseases and
informing public health interventions to contain their spread. Age-specific social mixing is …

[HTML][HTML] SOCRATES-CoMix: a platform for timely and open-source contact mixing data during and in between COVID-19 surges and interventions in over 20 …

F Verelst, L Hermans, S Vercruysse, A Gimma, P Coletti… - BMC medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background SARS-CoV-2 dynamics are driven by human behaviour. Social contact data are
of utmost importance in the context of transmission models of close-contact infections …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying the shift in social contact patterns in response to non-pharmaceutical interventions

Z McCarthy, Y Xiao, F Scarabel, B Tang… - Journal of Mathematics …, 2020 - Springer
Social contact mixing plays a critical role in influencing the transmission routes of infectious
diseases. Moreover, quantifying social contact mixing patterns and their variations in a …

[HTML][HTML] Social contact patterns relevant for infectious disease transmission in Cambodia

WTM Leung, A Meeyai, HR Holt, B Khieu, T Chhay… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Social mixing patterns are key determinants of infectious disease transmission.
Mathematical models parameterised with empirical data from contact pattern surveys have …

[HTML][HTML] Inferring the structure of social contacts from demographic data in the analysis of infectious diseases spread

L Fumanelli, M Ajelli, P Manfredi, A Vespignani… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Social contact patterns among individuals encode the transmission route of infectious
diseases and are a key ingredient in the realistic characterization and modeling of …

[HTML][HTML] Projecting social contact matrices to different demographic structures

S Arregui, A Aleta, J Sanz… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The modeling of large-scale communicable epidemics has greatly benefited in the last years
from the increasing availability of highly detailed data. Particullarly, in order to achieve …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal social contact data analysis: insights from 2 years of data collection in Belgium during the COVID-19 pandemic

N Loedy, P Coletti, J Wambua, L Hermans, L Willem… - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CoMix study, a longitudinal behavioral
survey, was designed to monitor social contacts and public awareness in multiple countries …

[HTML][HTML] Inferring high-resolution human mixing patterns for disease modeling

D Mistry, M Litvinova, A Pastore y Piontti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mathematical and computational modeling approaches are increasingly used as
quantitative tools in the analysis and forecasting of infectious disease epidemics. The …

[HTML][HTML] Projecting social contact matrices in 152 countries using contact surveys and demographic data

K Prem, AR Cook, M Jit - PLoS computational biology, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Heterogeneities in contact networks have a major effect in determining whether a pathogen
can become epidemic or persist at endemic levels. Epidemic models that determine which …