Niel Hens

Research interests

Publications

• Estimating the generation interval for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) based on symptom onset data, March 2020

  Eurosurveillance · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2020.25.17.2000257

• CoMix: comparing mixing patterns in the Belgian population during and after lockdown

  Scientific Reports · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78540-7

• Time between Symptom Onset, Hospitalisation and Recovery or Death: Statistical Analysis of Belgian COVID-19 Patients

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207560

• A Systematic Review of Social Contact Surveys to Inform Transmission Models of Close-contact Infections

  Epidemiology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1097/ede.0000000000001047

• Lessons from a decade of individual-based models for infectious disease transmission: a systematic review (2006-2015)

  BMC Infectious Diseases · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2699-8

• The French Connection: The First Large Population-Based Contact Survey in France Relevant for the Spread of Infectious Diseases

  PLoS ONE · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133203

• Pertussis vaccination during pregnancy in Belgium: Results of a prospective controlled cohort study

  Vaccine · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.10.100

• Differences in gut microbiota composition between obese and lean children: a cross-sectional study

  Gut Pathogens · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-4749-5-10

• Dynamic Epidemiological Models for Dengue Transmission: A Systematic Review of Structural Approaches

  PLoS ONE · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049085

• European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC): outpatient antibiotic use in Europe (1997–2009)

  Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkr453

• Social Contact Patterns in Vietnam and Implications for the Control of Infectious Diseases

  PLoS ONE · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016965

• Early waning of maternal measles antibodies in era of measles elimination: longitudinal study

  BMJ · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c1626

• Estimating the impact of school closure on social mixing behaviour and the transmission of close contact infections in eight European countries

  BMC Infectious Diseases · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-187

• Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns Relevant to the Spread of Infectious Diseases

  PLoS Medicine · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050074

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