Estimating Potential Infection Transmission Routes in Hospital Wards Using Wearable Proximity Sensors

Philippe Vanhems; Alain Barrat; Ciro Cattuto; Jean-François Pinton; Nagham Khanafer; Corinne Régis; Byeul-a Kim; Brigitte Comte; Nicolas Voirin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073970

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Estimating Potential Infection Transmission Routes in Hospital Wards Using Wearable Proximity Sensors

Philippe Vanhems,

Affiliations Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Service d’Hygiène, Epidémiologie et Prévention, Lyon, France, Université de Lyon, université Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5558, laboratoire de Biométrie et de Biologie Evolutive, Equipe Epidémiologie et Santé Publique, Lyon, France
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Alain Barrat,

Affiliations Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, CPT, UMR 7332, Marseille, France, Université de Toulon, CNRS, CPT, UMR 7332, La Garde, France, Data Science Lab, ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy
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Ciro Cattuto,

Affiliation Data Science Lab, ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy
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Jean-François Pinton,

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5672, Lyon, France
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Nagham Khanafer,

Affiliations Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Service d’Hygiène, Epidémiologie et Prévention, Lyon, France, Université de Lyon, université Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5558, laboratoire de Biométrie et de Biologie Evolutive, Equipe Epidémiologie et Santé Publique, Lyon, France
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Corinne Régis,

Affiliation Université de Lyon, université Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5558, laboratoire de Biométrie et de Biologie Evolutive, Equipe Epidémiologie et Santé Publique, Lyon, France
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Byeul-a Kim,

Affiliation Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Service de gériatrie, Lyon, France
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Brigitte Comte,

Affiliation Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Service de gériatrie, Lyon, France
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Nicolas Voirin

* E-mail: nicolas.voirin@chu-lyon.fr

Affiliations Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Service d’Hygiène, Epidémiologie et Prévention, Lyon, France, Université de Lyon, université Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5558, laboratoire de Biométrie et de Biologie Evolutive, Equipe Epidémiologie et Santé Publique, Lyon, France
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Estimating Potential Infection Transmission Routes in Hospital Wards Using Wearable Proximity Sensors

Philippe Vanhems,
Alain Barrat,
Ciro Cattuto,
Jean-François Pinton,
Nagham Khanafer,
Corinne Régis,
Byeul-a Kim,
Brigitte Comte,
Nicolas Voirin

Published: September 11, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073970

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Funding section erroneous

Posted by abarrat on 19 Sep 2013 at 16:17 GMT

The PLoS editing system has confused the funding section of this article with the one of another article. The correct funding section reads as follows:

This study was partially supported by the FINOVI foundation, the INSERM IMI Pandemic program and GOJO (Goldie et Jerry, GOJO Industries, Inc.). A.B. is partially supported by the FET project Multiplex 317532 and by ANR project HarMS-flu (ANR-12-MONU-0018). C.C. is partially supported by the FET project Multiplex.The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

No competing interests declared.

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Funding section erroneous

Posted by abarrat on 19 Sep 2013 at 16:17 GMT