Volume 15, Number 9—September 2009
Research
Nurses’ Contacts and Potential for Infectious Disease Transmission
Table 4
Mean number of individually reported contacts between nurses or controls and other persons, by age group, Bavaria, Germany, April–July 2007*
Age group, y | No. nurses/ controls | Mean no. contacts by age group of contact person |
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0–4 y | 5–14 y | 15–24 y | 25–34 y | 35–44 y | 45–54 y | 55–64 y | 65–74 y | 75–84 y | 85–94 y | ||
Nurses | |||||||||||
15–24 | 32 | 0.00 | 0.13 | 2.91 | 4.09 | 2.94 | 2.53 | 2.22 | 3.00 | 2.88 | 0.81 |
25–34 | 29 | 0.28 | 0.55 | 6.21 | 9.31 | 9.69 | 7.24 | 6.79 | 5.97 | 5.17 | 1.45 |
35–44 | 31 | 0.29 | 1.03 | 4.13 | 4.74 | 6.16 | 6.13 | 3.68 | 5.81 | 4.94 | 1.23 |
45–54 | 30 | 0.30 | 0.63 | 3.47 | 5.03 | 6.40 | 5.93 | 3.90 | 3.87 | 2.83 | 1.13 |
55–64 |
7 |
0.29 |
0.29 |
2.71 |
4.57 |
5.43 |
3.29 |
3.43 |
4.43 |
3.86 |
0.43 |
Controls | |||||||||||
15–24 | 32 | 0.00 | 0.29 | 6.10 | 2.38 | 1.43 | 1.71 | 0.76 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.00 |
25–34 | 29 | 0.29 | 0.45 | 0.60 | 1.48 | 1.17 | 0.74 | 0.64 | 0.14 | 0.07 | 0.02 |
35–44 | 31 | 0.13 | 0.26 | 1.29 | 1.00 | 2.29 | 1.48 | 0.52 | 0.42 | 0.26 | 0.00 |
45–54 | 30 | 0.07 | 0.18 | 0.86 | 0.96 | 1.61 | 1.93 | 0.71 | 0.36 | 0.25 | 0.00 |
55–64 | 7 | 0.00 | 0.57 | 0.57 | 1.43 | 0.71 | 1.86 | 1.71 | 0.43 | 0.14 | 0.00 |
*Total number of contacts was 5,071 for nurses and 993 for controls. Controls were not all from Bavaria.