Social contacts and mixing patterns in rural Gambia
In rural Gambia, social contact patterns were primarily driven by household mixing. Most contacts were physical and mostly age-assortative, particularly among school-aged children. Our data can improve infectious disease transmission models of respiratory pathogens in high-transmission settings, which are valuable for optimizing the delivery of different interventions.
Authors
- Golam Sarwar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3573-8457)
- Nuredin Mohammed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4067-1103)
- Stefan Flasche (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5808-2606)
- Grant Mackenzie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4994-2627)
- Kevin van Zandvoort (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7770-0537)
- Benjamin Young
- Isaac Osei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9370-9363)
- Jane Bruce
- Emmanuel Mendy
- Brian Greenwood
- Olimatou Jobe
Institutions
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- MRC Unit the Gambia (GM)
- Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute (AU)
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2025-02-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-025-10640-z
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.74
Funders
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Medical Research Council