Close contact infection dynamics over time: insights from a second large-scale social contact survey in Flanders, Belgium, in 2010-2011
Abstract Background In 2010-2011, we conducted a social contact survey in Flanders, Belgium, aimed at improving and extending the design of the first social contact survey conducted in Belgium in 2006. This second social contact survey aimed to enable, for the first time, the estimation of social mixing patterns for an age range of 0 to 99 years and the investigation of whether contact rates remain stable over this 5-year time period. Methods Different data mining techniques are used to explore the data, and the age-specific number of social contacts and the age-specific contact rates are mode... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2021) |
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Schlagwörter: | Contact rates / Contact behaviour / Mixing patterns / Behavioural changes / Infectious diseases / Infectious and parasitic diseases / RC109-216 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26613403 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-05949-4 |