Inferring the structure of social contacts from demographic data in the analysis of infectious diseases spread.

Social contact patterns among individuals encode the transmission route of infectious diseases and are a key ingredient in the realistic characterization and modeling of epidemics. Unfortunately, the gathering of high quality experimental data on contact patterns in human populations is a very diffi...

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Main Authors: Laura Fumanelli, Marco Ajelli, Piero Manfredi, Alessandro Vespignani, Stefano Merler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3441445?pdf=render