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Volume 26, Number 5—May 2020
Research

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Sex Differences in Social Contact Patterns and Implications for Tuberculosis Transmission and Control

Katherine C. HortonComments to Author , Anne L. Hoey, Guillaume Béraud, Elizabeth L. Corbett, and Richard G. White
Author affiliations: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (K.C. Horton, E.L. Corbett, R.G. White); St. George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (A.L. Hoey); University of New South Wales, Sydney (A.L. Hoey); Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Poitiers, Poitiers, France (G. Béraud); Université de Lille, Lille, France (G. Béraud); Universiteit de Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium (G. Béraud); Malawi–Liverpool–Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi (E.L. Corbett)

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Figure 4

Analysis of sex differences in social contact patterns and tuberculosis transmission and control showing proportion of contacts with the same sex as reported for A) men with boys, B) men with men, C) women with girls, and D) women with women. Forest plots of sex-assortative mixing in contacts show contacts (black dots) and 95% CIs (error bars) reported by men (A, B) and women (C, D) with children (A, C) and with adults (B, D).

Figure 4. Analysis of sex differences in social contact patterns and tuberculosis transmission and control showing proportion of contacts with the same sex as reported for A) men with boys, B) men with men, C) women with girls, and D) women with women. Forest plots of sex-assortative mixing in contacts show contacts (black dots) and 95% CIs (error bars) reported by men (A, B) and women (C, D) with children (A, C) and with adults (B, D).

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