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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 +4 more
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Targeted treatment of yaws with contact tracing : how much do we miss? [PDF]
, 2017 Yaws is a disabling bacterial infection found primarily in warm and humid tropical areas. The World Health Organization strategy mandates an initial round of total community treatment (TCT) with single-dose azithromycin followed either by further TCT or ...
Bishop, Alex +7 more
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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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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 +8 more
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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 +19 more
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Tuberculosis contact tracing yield and associated factors in Uganda
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022 Background The yield of tuberculosis (TB) contact tracing is historically low in Uganda. We determined factors associated with a positive contact tracing yield at an urban public TB clinic in Kampala, Uganda. Methods We reviewed contact tracing registers
Joseph Baruch Baluku +3 more
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Community health workers improve contact tracing among immigrants with tuberculosis in Barcelona [PDF]
, 2012 Background The important increase in immigration during recent years has changed the epidemiology and control strategies for tuberculosis (TB) in many places.
Jesús Edison Ospina +5 more
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Contact tracing in the hospital setting for COVID-19: An experience from AIIMS, New Delhi
Journal of Public Health and Primary Care, 2022 In this commentary, we relate our experience with contact tracing within the setting of a tertiary care institute and how it evolved over the course of the pandemic.
Devashish Desai +6 more
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A statistical network analysis of the HIV/AIDS epidemics in Cuba [PDF]
, 2015 The Cuban contact-tracing detection system set up in 1986 allowed the reconstruction and analysis of the sexual network underlying the epidemic (5,389 vertices and 4,073 edges, giant component of 2,386 nodes and 3,168 edges), shedding light onto the ...
A Clauset +33 more
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