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CATEGORIES:Departmental Seminar Programme\, Department of Vet
 erinary Medicine
SUMMARY:Who gave that to me? Carriage and transmission of 
 Staphylococcus aureus in schools. - Citizen Scient
 ists from Cottenham Village College and St Bedes I
 nter-Church School and Dr Andrew Conlan\, Departme
 nt of Veterinary Medicine\, University of Cambridg
 e
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180613T160000
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UID:TALK104842AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/104842
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical models that predict the spread of inf
 ectious diseases are an essential part of public h
 ealth decisions for the introduction of new vaccin
 es. These predictions use self-reported social con
 tacts as a proxy for how likely people are to tran
 smit infections through casual interactions. Howev
 er\, the link between who people report having con
 tact with and how they actually pick up infections
  has never been tested. We are addressing this cru
 cial public health question by recruiting school c
 hildren as citizen scientists to collect social co
 ntact and genomic data to estimate the transmissio
 n of Staphylococcus aureus within a school environ
 ment. In this talk\, citizen scientists from Cotte
 nham Village College and St Bedes Inter-Church Sch
 ool present their preliminary results including a 
 first estimate of the carriage and anti-microbial 
 resistance rates in British school age children of
  this common\, but clinically important\, bacteria
 .
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Department of Veterinary Medic
 ine
CONTACT:Fiona Roby
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