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Contact tracing and disease control [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2003 Contact tracing, followed by treatment or isolation, is a key control measure in the battle against infectious diseases. It is an extreme form of locally targeted control, and as such has the potential to be highly efficient when dealing with low numbers of cases.
Ken T D, Eames, Matt J, Keeling
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Security and Privacy Threats and Requirements for the Centralized Contact Tracing System in Korea
Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2022 As COVID-19 became a pandemic worldwide, contact tracing technologies and information systems were developed for quick control of infectious diseases in both the private and public sectors.
Sungchae Park, Heung-Youl Youm
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Traces of Contact in the Lexicon
, 2023 What can the languages spoken today tell us about the history of their speakers? This question is crucial in insular Southeast Asia and New Guinea, where thousands of languages are spoken, but written historical records and archaeological evidence is yet lacking in most regions.
Klamer, M.A.F., Moro, F.R.
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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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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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PIVOT: Private and Effective Contact Tracing [PDF]
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 We propose, design, and evaluate PIVOT, a privacy-enhancing and effective contact tracing solution that aims to strike a balance between utility and privacy: one that does not collect sensitive information yet allowing effective tracing and notifying the close contacts of diagnosed users.
Garofalo, Giuseppe +5 more
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Downsizing of COVID-19 contact tracing in highly immune populations.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Contact tracing is a key component of successful management of COVID-19. Contacts of infected individuals are asked to quarantine, which can significantly slow down (or prevent) community spread.
Maria M Martignoni +3 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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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 ...
Daniel Stocks +4 more
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