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PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundUntil a vaccine is developed, a test, trace and isolate strategy is the most effective method of controlling the COVID-19 outbreak. Contact tracing and case isolation are common methods for controlling infectious disease outbreaks. However, the
Odette Megnin-Viggars +4 more
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Models for Digitally Contact-Traced Epidemics
IEEE Access, 2022 Contacts between people are the main drivers of contagious respiratory infections. For this reason, limiting and tracking contacts is a key strategy for controlling the COVID-19 epidemic. Digital contact tracing has been proposed as an automated solution
Chiara Boldrini +2 more
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Epidemics, 2023 Contact tracing is an important tool for controlling the spread of infectious diseases, including COVID-19. Here, we investigate the spread of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of contact tracing in a university population, using a data-driven ego-centric ...
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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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Addressing contact tracing challenges—critical to halting Ebola virus disease transmission
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015 Background: Delayed and ineffective contact tracing contributed to the extensive transmission of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the 2014–2015 West African outbreak. Understanding and addressing the challenges to implementing and managing contact tracing is
Ashley L. Greiner +5 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023 Background In Ghana, contact tracing received heightened attention in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic during its peak period. Despite the successes achieved, numerous challenges continue to limit the efforts of contact tracing in completely ...
Isaac Tachie Asare +3 more
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Predicted Adoption Rates of Contact Tracing App Configurations - Insights from a choice-based conjoint study with a representative sample of the UK population [PDF]
, 2020 Widespread adoption of a contact tracing app by the UK public is an important part of safely easing or lifting the lockdown. In this context, it is essential to understand how adoption rates are influenced by different configurations of a proposed ...
Acar, O. A. +3 more
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Mobile objects: the space of shells in eighteenth-century France [PDF]
, 2006 The frequent distinction made between scientific and purely amateur collections misrepresents the specificity of the field of eighteenth-century natural history.
Dietz, Bettina
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Sensors, 2023 COVID-19 is highly contagious and spreads rapidly; it can be transmitted through coughing or contact with virus-contaminated hands, surfaces, or objects.
Maggie Ezzat Gaber Gendy +3 more
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Enhancing Bayesian risk prediction for epidemics using contact tracing
, 2012 Contact tracing data collected from disease outbreaks has received relatively little attention in the epidemic modelling literature because it is thought to be unreliable: infection sources might be wrongly attributed, or data might be missing due to ...
C. P. Jewell +7 more
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