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Optimizing the mitigation of epidemic spreading through targeted adoption of contact tracing apps

Physical Review Research, 2022
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the first epidemic in human history in which digital contact tracing has been deployed at a global scale. Tracking and quarantining all the contacts of individuals who test positive for a virus can help slow down an ...
Aleix Bassolas, Andrea Santoro, Sandro Sousa, Silvia Rognone, Vincenzo Nicosia   +4 more
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Impact of contact tracing on COVID-19 mortality: An impact evaluation using surveillance data from Colombia.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundContact tracing is a crucial part of the public health surveillance toolkit. However, it is labor-intensive and costly to carry it out. Some countries have faced challenges implementing contact tracing, and no impact evaluations using empirical
Andres I Vecino-Ortiz, Juliana Villanueva Congote, Silvana Zapata Bedoya, Zulma M Cucunuba   +3 more
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The importance of timely contact tracing — A simulation study

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background: While the role of contact tracing in the containment of the COVID-19 epidemic remains important until vaccines are widely available, literature on objectively measurable indicators for the effectiveness of contact tracing is scarce.
Sofia K. Mettler, Jewel Park, Orhun Özbek, Linus K. Mettler, Po-Han Ho, Hye Chang Rhim, Marloes H. Maathuis   +6 more
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Next Generation Technology for Epidemic Prevention and Control: Data-Driven Contact Tracking

IEEE Access, 2019
Contact tracking is one of the key technologies in prevention and control of infectious diseases. In the face of a sudden infectious disease outbreak, contact tracking systems can help medical professionals quickly locate and isolate infected persons and
Hechang Chen, Bo Yang, Hongbin Pei, Jiming Liu   +3 more
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Challenges and mitigation strategies during contact tracing: Lessons learned in COVID-19-pandemic

Journal of Public Health and Primary Care, 2022
Introduction: Contact tracing can identify potentially infected individuals before severe symptoms emerge, and if conducted sufficiently quickly can prevent onward transmission from secondary cases.
Suraj Kapoor, Vivek Anand, Arun Kumar Yadav, S Vijay Bhaskar, Surinder Kumar, Dharamjeet Singh Faujdar, Prabhakar Teli   +6 more
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Contact-tracing issues

New Scientist, 2020
England is continuing to remove coronavirus restrictions but efforts to track and stop infections are still struggling, reports Adam Vaughan.
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Tracing contacts, finding ourselves [PDF]

Science, 2021
In March 2020, we shut down our Ph.D. experiments and prepared for an indefinite period of working from home. As we threw away our cell cultures and wound down our animal colonies, we imagined the manuscripts we would finally draft, the papers we would read, and the bioinformatic skills we would learn.
Naseer, Nawar, Strelau, Katherine
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Early evidence of effectiveness of digital contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
In the wake of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), contact tracing has become a key element of strategies to control the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Given the rapid and intense spread of SARS-
Marcel Salathé, Christian L. Althaus, Nanina Anderegg, Daniele Antonioli, Tala Ballouz, Edouard Bugnion, Srdjan Čapkun, Dennis Jackson, Sang-Il Kim, James R. Larus, Nicola Low, Wouter Lueks, Dominik Menges, Cédric Moullet, Mathias Payer, Julien Riou, Theresa Stadler, Carmela Troncoso, Effy Vayena, Viktor von Wyl   +19 more
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Exploring the promise and reality of ward-based primary healthcare outreach teams conducting TB household contact tracing in three districts of South Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundTuberculosis (TB) household contact tracing is a form of targeted active case-finding for which community health workers ('outreach teams') in South Africa are primarily responsible for its implementation.
Candice M Chetty-Makkan, Daniel deSanto, Richard Lessells, Salome Charalambous, Kavindhran Velen, Sewele Makgopa, Dumile Gumede, Katherine Fielding, Alison D Grant   +8 more
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Prospective Case-control Study of Contact Tracing Speed for Emergency Department-based Contact Tracers

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022
Introduction: In Snohomish County, WA, the time from obtaining a positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) test and initiating contact tracing is 4–6 days.
Sean C. Weaver, Samuel S. Byrne, Hollianne Bruce, Olivia L. Vargas, Thomas E. Robey   +4 more
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