Using data on social contacts to estimate age-specific transmission parameters for respiratory-spread infectious agents

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 164, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 936-944

  Wallinga, Jacco ^a   Teunis, Peter ^a   Kretzschmar, Mirjam ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease outbreaks; Disease transmission, horizontal; Infection; Influenza, human; Models, statistical; Mumps; Statistics

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CHILD HEALTH; DATA QUALITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PATHOGEN; POPULATION SIZE; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MUMPS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SMALLPOX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTACT TRACING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

VARIOLA VIRUS;

EID: 33750896281     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwj317     Document Type: Article

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