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cord-312817-gskbu0oh	Witte, Carmel	Spatiotemporal network structure among “friends of friends” reveals contagious disease process	2020-08-06		.txt	text/plain	5924	274	44	These results provide empirical evidence that at least some avian mycobacteriosis infections are transmitted between birds, and provide new methods for detecting contagious processes in large-scale global network structures with indirect contacts, even when transmission pathways, timing of cases, or etiologic agents are unknown. Thus, the population represents a group of birds for which 1) a near-complete social network could be assembled from housing records that tracked dynamic movement over time, and 2) avian mycobacteriosis disease status could be determined for any bird that died. Although disease clustering among friends of friends could represent a contagious process, there is a possibility that some of the association could be explained by homophily, i.e., that connected birds could be more alike than the general bird population in terms of species, behavior, susceptibility, enclosure characteristics, etc. For this test, we evaluated disease clustering between a subject and its friends of friends from different enclosures that could not have transmitted infection based on the timing of the contact.	./cache/cord-312817-gskbu0oh.txt	./txt/cord-312817-gskbu0oh.txt