Mining social mixing patterns for infectious disease models based on a two-day population survey in Belgium

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hens, Niel ^a,c   Goeyvaerts, Nele ^a,c   Aerts, Marc ^a,c   Shkedy, Ziv ^a,c   Van Damme, Pierre ^b   Beutels, Philippe ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CHILD; DATA MINING; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LEISURE; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62249196947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-5     Document Type: Article

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