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Characteristics of human encounters and social mixing patterns relevant to infectious diseases spread by close contact: a survey in Southwest Uganda

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3073-1

Published Online: 2018-04-11

Published Print: 2018-12

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Authors

le Polain de Waroux, O.

Cohuet, S.

Ndazima, D.

Kucharski, A. J.

Juan-Giner, A.

Flasche, S.

Tumwesigye, E.

Arinaitwe, R.

Mwanga-Amumpaire, J.

Boum, Y. II

Nackers, F.

Checchi, F.

Grais, R. F.

Edmunds, W. J.
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Funding for this research was provided by:

AXA Research Fund

Médecins Sans Frontières
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Article History

Received: 3 August 2017

Accepted: 27 March 2018

First Online: 11 April 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Written informed consent (in the form of a signature or a thumbmark) was sought for individuals aged > 17 years, and from a parent or carer for children < 18 years. In addition, assent was sought from children aged 7 – 17 years. Approval was obtained from the Ethical review boards of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Faculty of Medicine Research & Ethics Committee of the Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), the Institutional Ethical Review Board of the MUST, the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

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: Yap Boum is an editor of BMC Infectious Diseases. The authors declare they have no other competing interest.

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