The social life of infants in the context of infectious disease transmission; social contacts and mixing patterns of the very young.
Insight into how humans interact helps further understanding of the transmission of infectious diseases. For diseases such as pertussis, infants are at particular risk for severe outcomes. To understand the contact pattern of infants, especially those too young to be vaccinated, we sent contact diar...
Main Authors: | Albert Jan van Hoek, Nick Andrews, Helen Campbell, Gayatri Amirthalingam, W John Edmunds, Elizabeth Miller |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3797797?pdf=render |
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