Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns Relevant to the Spread of Infectious Diseases

• Joël Mossong ,

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected]

  Affiliations Microbiology Unit, Laboratoire National de Santé, Luxembourg, Luxembourg , Centre de Recherche Public Santé, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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• Niel Hens,

  Affiliation Center for Statistics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

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• Mark Jit,

  Affiliation Modelling and Economics Unit, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom

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• Philippe Beutels,

  Affiliation Unit Health Economic and Modeling Infectious Diseases, Center for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Kari Auranen,

  Affiliation Department of Vaccines, National Public Health Institute KTL, Helsinki, Finland

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• Rafael Mikolajczyk,

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Marco Massari,

  Affiliation Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Stefania Salmaso,

  Affiliation Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba,

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

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• Jacco Wallinga,

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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• Janneke Heijne,

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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• Malgorzata Sadkowska-Todys,

  Affiliation National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland

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• Magdalena Rosinska,

  Affiliation National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland

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• W. John Edmunds

  Affiliation Modelling and Economics Unit, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom

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