Relationship between household attributes and contact patterns in urban and rural South Africa

Kausutua Tjikundi; Jackie Kleynhans; Stefano Tempia; Cheryl Cohen; Daniela Paolotti; Ciro Cattuto; Lorenzo Dall’Amico

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0344732

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Relationship between household attributes and contact patterns in urban and rural South Africa

Kausutua Tjikundi,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy, University of Turin, Department of Computer Science, Turin, Italy
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Jackie Kleynhans,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7081-6273

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Stefano Tempia,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, The Partnership for International Vaccine Initiative, Taskforce for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4395-347X

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Cheryl Cohen,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Daniela Paolotti,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy
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Ciro Cattuto,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy
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Lorenzo Dall’Amico

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: lorenzo.dallamico@isi.it

Affiliation ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-6421

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Relationship between household attributes and contact patterns in urban and rural South Africa

Kausutua Tjikundi,
Jackie Kleynhans,
Stefano Tempia,
Cheryl Cohen,
Daniela Paolotti,
Ciro Cattuto,
Lorenzo Dall’Amico

Published: March 23, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0344732

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