Face-to-face contacts between individuals contribute to shape social networks and play an
important role in determining how infectious diseases can spread within a population. It is …

Background Little quantitative information is available on the mixing patterns of children in
school environments. Describing and understanding contacts between children at school …

Given their importance in shaping social networks and determining how information or
transmissible diseases propagate in a population, interactions between individuals are the …

Thanks to recent technological advances, measuring real-world interactions by the use of
mobile devices and wearable sensors has become possible, allowing researchers to gather …

Although contact network models have yielded important insights into infectious disease
transmission and control throughout the last decade, researchers have just begun to explore …

Background Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases transmitted by the respiratory or
close-contact route (eg, pandemic influenza) is increasingly being used to determine the …

Social contact patterns among individuals encode the transmission route of infectious
diseases and are a key ingredient in the realistic characterization and modeling of …

Background The integration of empirical data in computational frameworks designed to
model the spread of infectious diseases poses a number of challenges that are becoming …

Background Until recently, mathematical models of person to person infectious diseases
transmission had to make assumptions on transmissions enabled by personal contacts by …

Understanding human mixing patterns is the key to provide public health decision makers
with model-based evaluation of strategies for the control of infectious diseases. Here we …