Background: Researchers increasingly use social contact data to inform models for
infectious disease spread with the aim of guiding effective policies about disease prevention …

Modern infectious disease epidemiology has a strong history of using mathematics both for
prediction and to gain a deeper understanding. However the study of infectious diseases is …

Objective Contact tracing is a central public health response to infectious disease outbreaks,
especially in the early stages of an outbreak when specific treatments are limited …

Given their importance in sha** social networks and determining how information or
transmissible diseases propagate in a population, interactions between individuals are the …

The 2019-2020 pandemic of atypical pneumonia (COVID-19) caused by the virus SARS-
CoV-2 has spread globally and has the potential to infect large numbers of people in every …

A contact-tracing strategy has been deemed necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19
following the relaxation of lockdown measures. Using an agent-based model, we explore …

Combinations of intense non-pharmaceutical interventions (lockdowns) were introduced
worldwide to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Many governments have begun to …

The spread of many respiratory infections is determined by contact patterns between
infectious and susceptible individuals in the population. There are no published data for …

The rapid emergence of SARS-CoV-2 mutants with new phenotypic properties is a critical
challenge to the control of the ongoing pandemic. B. 1.1. 7 was monitored in the UK through …

A dense population, global connectivity and frequent human–animal interaction give
southern China an important role in the spread and emergence of infectious disease …