The French Connection: The First Large Population-Based Contact Survey in France Relevant for the Spread of Infectious Diseases.

Empirical social contact patterns are essential to understand the spread of infectious diseases. To date, no such data existed for France. Although infectious diseases are frequently seasonal, the temporal variation of contact patterns has not been documented hitherto.COMES-F is the first French lar...

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Main Authors: Guillaume Béraud, Sabine Kazmercziak, Philippe Beutels, Daniel Levy-Bruhl, Xavier Lenne, Nathalie Mielcarek, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Niel Hens, Benoit Dervaux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4503306?pdf=render