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Title: | Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Sex Differences in Social Contact Patterns and Implications for Tuberculosis Transmission and Control | Authors: | Horton, Katherine C. Hoey, Anne L. BERAUD, Guillaume Corbett, Elizabeth L. White, Richard G. |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Publisher: | CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION | Source: | EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 26 (5) , p. 910 -919 | Abstract: | Social contact patterns might contribute to excess burden of tuberculosis in men. We conducted a study of social contact surveys to evaluate contact patterns relevant to tuberculosis transmission. Available data describe 21 surveys in 17 countries and show profound differences in sex-based and age-based patterns of contact. Adults reported more adult contacts than children. Children preferentially mixed with women in all surveys (median sex assortativity 58%, interquartile range [IQR] 57%-59% for boys, 61% [IQR 60%-63%] for girls). Men and women reported sex-assortative mixing in 80% and 95% of surveys (median sex assortativity 56% [IQR 54%-58%] for men, 59% [IQR 57%-63%] for women). Sex-specific patterns of contact with adults were similar at home and outside the home for children; adults reported greater sex assortativity outside the home in most surveys. Sex assortativity in adult contacts likely contributes to sex disparities in adult tuberculosis burden by amplifying incidence among men. | Notes: | Horton, KC (reprint author), London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, Fac Epidemiol & Populat Hlth, Dept Infect Dis Epidemiol, Keppel St, London WC1E 7HT, England. katherine.horton@lshtm.ac.uk |
Other: | Horton, KC (corresponding author), London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, Fac Epidemiol & Populat Hlth, Dept Infect Dis Epidemiol, Keppel St, London WC1E 7HT, England. katherine.horton@lshtm.ac.uk | Keywords: | Mycobacterium-Tuberculosis;Prevalence;Community;Spread;Gender | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/31554 | Link to publication/dataset: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0574_article | ISSN: | 1080-6040 | e-ISSN: | 1080-6059 | DOI: | 10.3201/eid2605.190574 | ISI #: | WOS:000529306800010 | Rights: | Emerging Infectious Diseases is an open access journal in the public domain. All content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Materials published in EID, including text, figures, tables, and photographs, can be reprinted or reused although the journal requests a proper citation be included for its content and users clearly indicate what, if any, changes have been made. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2021 |
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