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    Influenza and other respiratory viral infections associated with absence from school among schoolchildren in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: a cohort study

    Information on the etiology and age-specific burden of respiratory viral infections among school-aged children remains limited. Though school aged children are often recognized as driving the transmission of i...

    Jonathan M. Read, Shanta Zimmer, Charles Vukotich Jr in BMC Infectious Diseases (2021)

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    Open Access

    Age-specific social mixing of school-aged children in a US setting using proximity detecting sensors and contact surveys

    Comparisons of the utility and accuracy of methods for measuring social interactions relevant to disease transmission are rare. To increase the evidence base supporting specific methods to measure social inter...

    Kyra H. Grantz, Derek A. T. Cummings, Shanta Zimmer in Scientific Reports (2021)