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Toward unbiased assessment of treatment and prevention: modeling household transmission of pandemic influenza

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Title
Toward unbiased assessment of treatment and prevention: modeling household transmission of pandemic influenza
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BMC Medicine, October 2012
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-10-118
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Gerardo Chowell, Hiroshi Nishiura

Abstract

Providing valid and reliable estimates of the transmissibility and severity of pandemic influenza in real time is key to guide public health policymaking. In particular, early estimates of the transmissibility are indispensable for determining the type and intensity of interventions. A recent study by House and colleagues in BMC Medicine devised a stochastic transmission model to estimate the unbiased risk of transmission within households, applying the method to datasets of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic. Here, we discuss future challenges in household transmission studies and underscore the need to systematically collect epidemiological data to decipher the household transmission dynamics. We emphasize the need to consider three critical issues for future improvements: (i) capturing age-dependent heterogeneity within households calls for intensive modeling efforts, (ii) the timeline of observation during the course of an epidemic and the length of follow-up should be aligned with study objectives, and (iii) the use of laboratory methods, especially molecular techniques, is encouraged to distinguish household transmissions from those arising in the community.See related article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/10/117.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 9%
United Kingdom 1 5%
Unknown 19 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 27%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 23%
Other 2 9%
Student > Master 2 9%
Student > Postgraduate 2 9%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 2 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 32%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 32%
Mathematics 2 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 5%
Social Sciences 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 3 14%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 October 2012.
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#14,735,403
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,967
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#104,521
of 172,685 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#43
of 51 outputs
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