Social contacts and mixing patterns relevant to the spread of infectious diseases

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 0381-0391

  Mossong, Joël ^a,b   Hens, Niel ^c   Jit, Mark ^d   Beutels, Philippe ^e   Auranen, Kari ^f   Mikolajczyk, Rafael ^g   Massari, Marco ^h   Salmaso, Stefania ^h   Tomba, Gianpaolo Scalia ⁱ   Wallinga, Jacco ^j   Heijne, Janneke ^j   Sadkowska Todys, Malgorzata ^k   Rosinska, Magdalena ^k   Edmunds, W John ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE SANTÉ   (Luxembourg)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^f NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

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

^k NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; NEWBORN; SCHOOL; SEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL; WORKPLACE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EUROPE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 41549103774     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050074     Document Type: Article

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