Titre :

The french connection: the first large population-based contact survey in france relevant for the spread of infectious diseases

Auteur(s) :

Beraud, Guillaume [Auteur]
Evaluation des technologies de santé et des pratiques médicales - ULR 2694 [METRICS]
Kazmercziak, Sabine [Auteur]
Université catholique de Lille [UCL]
Beutels, Philippe [Auteur]
Universiteit Antwerpen = University of Antwerpen [Antwerpen]
Levy-Bruhl, Daniel [Auteur]
Institut de Veille Sanitaire [INVS]
Lenne, Xavier [Auteur]
Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [CHU Lille] [CHRU Lille]
Mielcarek, Nathalie [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Yazdanpanah, Yazdan [Auteur]
Service des maladies infectieuses et tropicales
Boelle, Pierre-Yves [Auteur]
Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine [UMRS893]
Hens, Niel [Auteur]
Hasselt University [UHasselt]
Dervaux, Benoit [Auteur]
Evaluation des technologies de santé et des pratiques médicales - ULR 2694 [METRICS]

Titre de la revue :

PLOS ONE
PLOS ONE

Éditeur :

Public Library of Science

Date de publication :

2015-07-15

ISSN :

1932-6203

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Mesh:Adolescent
Mesh:Female
Mesh:Communicable Diseases/transmission
Mesh:Communicable Diseases/epidemiology*
Mesh:Child
Mesh:Preschool
Mesh:Aged
Mesh:Adult
Mesh:Male
Mesh:Infant
Mesh:Humans
Mesh:Holidays
Mesh:Middle Aged
Mesh:Schools
Mesh:Seasons
Mesh:Surveys and Questionnaires
Mesh:Young Adult
Mesh:France/epidemiology

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Résumé en anglais : [en]

BACKGROUND: Empirical social contact patterns are essential to understand the spread of infectious diseases. To date, no such data existed for France. Although infectious diseases are frequently seasonal, the temporal ...
Lire la suite >BACKGROUND: Empirical social contact patterns are essential to understand the spread of infectious diseases. To date, no such data existed for France. Although infectious diseases are frequently seasonal, the temporal variation of contact patterns has not been documented hitherto.METHODS: COMES-F is the first French large-scale population survey, carried out over 3 different periods (February-March, April, April-May) with some participants common to the first and the last period. Participants described their contacts for 2 consecutive days, and reported separately on professional contacts when typically over 20 per day.RESULTS: 2033 participants reported 38 881 contacts (weighted median [first quartile-third quartile]: 8[5-14] per day), and 54 378 contacts with supplementary professional contacts (9[5-17]). Contrary to age, gender, household size, holidays, weekend and occupation, period of the year had little influence on the number of contacts or the mixing patterns. Contact patterns were highly assortative with age, irrespective of the location of the contact, and gender, with women having 8% more contacts than men. Although most contacts occurred at home and at school, the inclusion of professional contacts modified the structure of the mixing patterns. Holidays and weekends reduced dramatically the number of contacts, and as proxies for school closure, reduced R0 by 33% and 28%, respectively. Thus, school closures could have an important impact on the spread of close contact infections in France.CONCLUSIONS: Despite no clear evidence for temporal variation, trends suggest that more studies are needed. Age and gender were found important determinants of the mixing patterns. Gender differences in mixing patterns might help explain gender differences in the epidemiology of infectious diseases.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité de Lille (CIIL) - U1019 - UMR 9017

Source :

Harvested from HAL