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SUBMITTER: Meyer S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5379927 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Meyer Sebastian S Held Leonhard L
Biostatistics (Oxford, England) 20170401 2
Routine public health surveillance of notifiable infectious diseases gives rise to weekly counts of reported cases-possibly stratified by region and/or age group. We investigate how an age-structured social contact matrix can be incorporated into a spatio-temporal endemic-epidemic model for infectious disease counts. To illustrate the approach, we analyze the spread of norovirus gastroenteritis over six age groups within the 12 districts of Berlin, 2011-2015, using contact data from the POLYMOD ...[more]