Close encounters of the infectious kind: methods to measure social mixing behaviour

JM Read, WJ Edmunds, S Riley, J Lessler… - Epidemiology & …, 2012 - cambridge.org
A central tenet of close-contact or respiratory infection epidemiology is that infection patterns
within human populations are related to underlying patterns of social interaction. Until …

Contact patterns in a high school: a comparison between data collected using wearable sensors, contact diaries and friendship surveys

R Mastrandrea, J Fournet, A Barrat - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Given their importance in shaping social networks and determining how information or
transmissible diseases propagate in a population, interactions between individuals are the …

Capturing the dynamics of pathogens with many strains

AJ Kucharski, V Andreasen, JR Gog - Journal of mathematical biology, 2016 - Springer
Pathogens that consist of multiple antigenic variants are a serious public health concern.
These infections, which include dengue virus, influenza and malaria, generate substantial …

High-resolution measurements of face-to-face contact patterns in a primary school

J Stehlé, N Voirin, A Barrat, C Cattuto, L Isella… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Little quantitative information is available on the mixing patterns of children in
school environments. Describing and understanding contacts between children at school …

Contact patterns among high school students

J Fournet, A Barrat - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Mitigation of infectious disease at school: targeted class closure vs school closure

V Gemmetto, A Barrat, C Cattuto - BMC infectious diseases, 2014 - Springer
Background School environments are thought to play an important role in the community
spread of infectious diseases such as influenza because of the high mixing rates of school …

Measured dynamic social contact patterns explain the spread of H1N1v influenza

KTD Eames, NL Tilston, E Brooks-Pollock… - PLoS computational …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Patterns of social mixing are key determinants of epidemic spread. Here we present the
results of an internet-based social contact survey completed by a cohort of participants over …

[HTML][HTML] Contagion! the bbc four pandemic–the model behind the documentary

P Klepac, S Kissler, J Gog - Epidemics, 2018 - Elsevier
To mark the centenary of the 1918 influenza pandemic, the broadcasting network BBC have
put together a 75-min documentary called 'Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic'. Central to …

Quantifying pupil-to-pupil SARS-CoV-2 transmission and the impact of lateral flow testing in English secondary schools

T Leng, EM Hill, A Holmes, E Southall… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A range of measures have been implemented to control within-school SARS-CoV-2
transmission in England, including the self-isolation of close contacts and twice weekly mass …

The impact of illness on social networks: implications for transmission and control of influenza

K Van Kerckhove, N Hens, WJ Edmunds… - American journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We expect social networks to change as a result of illness, but social contact data are
generally collected from healthy persons. Here we quantified the impact of influenza-like …