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Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases

2017-06-13

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Households are an important location for the transmission of communicable diseases. Social contact between household members is typically more frequent, of greater intensity, and is more likely to involve people of different age groups than contact occurring in the general community. Understanding household structure in different populations is therefore fundamental to explaining patterns of disease transmission i...

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Literature Corpus work: 36cd1af5-a9cc-505e-8c94-f558ad1f25e9
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.3022v1

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