title: School closures and student contact patterns.
abstract: To determine how school closure for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 affected students' contact patterns, we conducted a retrospective questionnaire survey at a UK school 2 weeks after the school reopened. School closure was associated with a 65% reduction in the mean total number of contacts for each student.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London WC1E 7HT, UK. charlotte.jackson@lshtm.ac.uk
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: Punam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mangtani
authors.forename: Emilia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vynnycky
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fielding
authors.forename: Aileen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kitching
authors.forename: Huda
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mohamed
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roche
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Maguire
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods; D016358:Contact Tracing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D053118:Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype / Q000502:physiology*; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission* / Q000821:virology; D058873:Pandemics; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology