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cord-312840-jvdph782	White, Laura F	Determining the dynamics of influenza transmission by age	2014-03-21		.txt	text/plain	5038	247	54	We introduce a simple method to estimate the reproductive number by modifying the method originally proposed by Wallinga and Teunis and using existing information on contact patterns between age groups. Studies examining disease transmission by age have consistently shown that children have higher estimated values of the reproductive number than adults. Figures 3a and 3b shows the estimates of R 0 across the 10 age groups obtained when using contact patterns from South Africa and the eight European countries in the PolyMod study for all close contacts (Figure 3a ) and all contacts involving physical touch (Figure 3b ). We present a novel approach to estimating the effective and basic reproductive number by age group, and have applied this method to data from the 2009 Influenza H1N1pdm in Gauteng Province in South Africa. We have applied a novel method to estimate transmission patterns between individuals from different age groups during the 2009 Influenza H1N1pdm in South Africa.	./cache/cord-312840-jvdph782.txt	./txt/cord-312840-jvdph782.txt