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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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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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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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Every contact leaves a trace [PDF]
British Journal of General Practice, 2021 A few years ago I was on holiday when I briefly got chatting with a fellow tourist — a kind police officer — by the pool, who had been and was still working his way through ‘burnout’, relating to his work. He had written a book about his experiences, which introduced me to what is known as ‘Locard’s Exchange Principle’1 and the fact that ‘every ...
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Contact tracing for tuberculosis, Thailand
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2020 Despite implementation of universal health coverage in Thailand, gaps remain in the system for screening contacts of tuberculosis patients.We designed broader criteria for contact investigation and new screening practices and assessed the approach in a programme-based operational research study in 2017-2018.
Imsanguan, Worarat +11 more
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International Journal of Communication, 2023 Digital contact tracing has been claimed as imperative to controlling the spread of COVID-19. However, the state-by-state approach in the United States led to divergences in contact tracing.
Eugene Jang +2 more
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How is “solidarity” understood in discussions about contact tracing apps? An overview
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundIn the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is much discussion about contact tracing apps, their use to contain the spread of the virus as well as the ethical, legal, and social aspects of their development, implementation, acceptance, and ...
Max Tretter
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Evaluation of a Contact Tracing Training Program and Field Experience
AJPM Focus, 2022 Introduction: The study objective was to evaluate a contact tracing training program and the role of contact tracing on volunteers’ professional development.
Katherine M. Strelau, BS +6 more
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Modulation of Homer1 EVH1 domain internal dynamics by putative autism‐associated mutations
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The putative autism‐associated M65I and S97L variants of the EVH1 domain of the postsynaptic scaffold protein Homer1 do not exhibit substantial changes in their overall structure or partner binding. Both of them, but especially the M65I variant, show altered internal dynamics relative to the wild‐type domain on the μs‐ms timescale, indicated by the ...
Fanni Farkas +6 more
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