Role of social networks in shaping disease transmission during a community outbreak of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2825-2830

  Cauchemez, Simon ^a   Bhattarai, Achuyt ^b   Marchbanks, Tiffany L ^c   Fagan, Ryan P ^b   Ostroff, Stephen ^c   Ferguson, Neil M ^a   Swerdlow, David ^b   Sodha, Samir V ^b,c   Moll, Mària E ^b,c   Angulo, Frederick J ^b,c   Palekar, Rakhee ^b,c   Archer, W Roodly ^b,c   Finelli, Lyn ^b,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Data augmentation; Epidemiology; Infectious diseases; Mathematical modelling

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL NETWORK;

CHILD; FEMALE; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PANDEMICS; PENNSYLVANIA; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENTS;

EID: 79952600976     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008895108     Document Type: Article

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