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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2012

Transmission of Chlamydia trachomatis through sexual partnerships: a comparison between three individual-based models and empirical data.

Christian L Althaus, Katherine M E Turner, Boris V Schmid, Janneke C M Heijne, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Nicola Low

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6 authors.

Christian L AlthausInstitute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. christian.althaus@alumni.ethz.ch
Katherine M E Turner
Boris V Schmid
Janneke C M Heijne
Mirjam Kretzschmar
Nicola Low

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Department of Health 07/42/02Department of Health HTA/07/42/02Department of Health PDF-2009-02-55
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) in many developed countries. The highest prevalence rates are found among young adults who have frequent partner change rates. Three published individual-based models have incorporated a detailed description of age-specific sexual behaviour in order to quantify the transmission of C. trachomatis in the population and to assess the impact of screening interventions. Owing to varying assumptions about sexual partnership formation and dissolution and the great uncertainty about critical parameters, such models show conflicting results about the impact of preventive interventions. Here, we perform a detailed evaluation of these models by comparing the partnership formation and dissolution dynamics with data from Natsal 2000, a population-based probability sample survey of sexual attitudes and lifestyles in Britain. The data also allow us to describe the dispersion of C. trachomatis infections as a function of sexual behaviour, using the Gini coefficient. We suggest that the Gini coefficient is a useful measure for calibrating infectious disease models that include risk structure and highlight the need to estimate this measure for other STIs.

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Models, TheoreticalSexual BehaviorChlamydia InfectionsChlamydia trachomatisFemaleHumansMalePrevalenceSexual Partners

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PMID21653569
PMCPMC3223622

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