Journal article
Social mixing in Fiji: Who-eats-with-whom contact patterns and the implications of age and ethnic heterogeneity for disease dynamics in the Pacific Islands.
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Empirical data on contact patterns can inform dynamic models of infectious disease transmission. Such information has not been widely reported from Pacific islands, nor strongly multi-ethnic settings, and few attempts have been made to quantify contact patterns relevant for the spread of gastrointestinal infections. As part of enteric fever investigations, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of the general public in Fiji, finding that within the 9,650 mealtime contacts reported by 1,814 par...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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World Health Organization Western Pacific Region
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Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS one Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- e0186911
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-10
- DOI:
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- Pmid:
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29211731
- Source identifiers:
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811246
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- English
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pubs:811246
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uuid:6980001c-191b-43a0-9724-c2b00a02ebe5
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- pubs:811246
- Deposit date:
- 2018-01-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Watson et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © 2017 Watson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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