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 This repository contains the relevant contact networks and analysis code for the paper "An algorithm to build synthetic temporal contact networks based on close-proximity interactions data".
 
+_**Please note that this project makes use of data previously collected as part of the i-Bird study. Full details are available in "Detailed Contact Data and the Dissemination of Staphylococcus aureus in Hospitals" (Obadia et al, PLOS Computational Biology 2015).**_
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 ## Analysis