School Closures and Student Contact Patterns

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Jackson, Charlotte ; Mangtani, Punam ; Vynnycky, Emilia ; Fielding, Katherine ; Kitching, Aileen ; Mohamed, Huda ; Roche, Anita ; Maguire, Helen
• Description:
  To determine how school closure for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 affected students' contact patterns, we conducted a retrospective questionnaire survey at a UK school 2 weeks after the school reopened. School closure was associated with a 65% reduction in the mean total number of contacts for each student.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Child Communicable Disease Control Contact Tracing Disease Outbreaks Dispatch Expedite Great Britain Human Humans Influenza Influenza, Human Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype Pandemics Questionnaires School Closures Schools Social Behavior Students Viruses

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 17(2):245-247.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  17
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e858d76c9de58893d07a43c1f8374bd3cf578721994e6bc0de280f451ee727f0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/18304/cdc_18304_DS1.pdf
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