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Mitigation of infectious disease at school: targeted class closure vs school closure
Valerio Gemmetto, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto
School environments are thought to play an important role in the community spread of airborne infections (e.g., influenza) because of the high mixing rates of school children. The…
Estimating Potential Infection Transmission Routes in Hospital Wards Using Wearable Proximity Sensors
Philippe Vanhems, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto +6
Contacts between patients, patients and health care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs represent one of the important routes of transmission of hospital-acquired infections (HAI). A det…
Simulation of an SEIR infectious disease model on the dynamic contact network of conference attendees
Juliette Stehlé, Nicolas Voirin, Alain Barrat +8
The spread of infectious diseases crucially depends on the pattern of contacts among individuals. Knowledge of these patterns is thus essential to inform models and computational e…
Close encounters in a pediatric ward: measuring face-to-face proximity and mixing patterns with wearable sensors
L. Isella, M. Romano, A. Barrat +8
Nosocomial infections place a substantial burden on health care systems and represent a major issue in current public health, requiring notable efforts for its prevention. Understa…