Contact tracing
Modeling secondary level of HIV contact tracing: its impact on HIV intervention in Cuba
... by contact tracing has fallen to 15% of those detected and some per- sons were detected through the family doctors before they could be traced by the contact tracing ...tact tracing ...
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Targeted treatment of yaws with contact tracing : how much do we miss?
... To assess the relative importance of infection within the household to infection in the general population, we employed a household model. Household models take account of the increased risk of transmission between ...
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A randomized trial to assess retention rates using mobile phone reminders versus physical contact tracing in a potential HIV vaccine efficacy population of fishing communities around Lake Victoria, Uganda
... physical contact tracing performed bet- ter than mobile phone because the following ...physical contact reminders are time and energy consuming and require effort on the part of the tracer, at ...
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Intensified household contact tracing, prevention and treatment support versus enhanced standard of care for contacts of tuberculosis cases in South Africa: study protocol for a household cluster randomised trial
... household contact tracing identified comparable rates of undiagnosed TB disease in contacts as in the high TB incidence area (or “hot spot” area) of Matlosana District; again, a significant proportion of ...
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Factors Associated with Differences between Conventional Contact Tracing and Molecular Epidemiology in Study of Tuberculosis Transmission and Analysis in the City of Barcelona, Spain
... conventional contact tracing (CCT) and molecular epidemiology (ME) methods in assessing tuberculosis (TB) transmission, comparing the popula- tions studied and the epidemiological links established by both ...
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Tuberculosis contact-tracing among Syrian refugee populations: lessons from Jordan
... increase contact vulnerability ...develop contact-tracing (CT) activities when implementing TB public health strategies among displaced populations ...
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Egere, Uzochukwu Emeka (2017): Contact tracing and isoniazid preventive therapy for prevention of childhood tuberculosis in The Gambia: an analysis of the challenges and opportunities. Dissertation, LMU München: Medizinische Fakultät
... Paediatric household contact tracing was conducted from February 2012 to July 2014. Consecutively diagnosed adult smear-positive index TB cases, identified within the Gambia National TB Control Programme ...
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Assessing the role of contact tracing in a suspected H7N2 influenza A outbreak in humans in Wales
... The contact tracing dataset consisted of 254 individuals (cases and contacts, of both poultry and humans) who were linked through a network of social ...individuals' contact patterns were ...
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Characterization of ompA Genotypes by Sequence Analysis of DNA from All Detected Cases of Chlamydia trachomatis Infections during 1 Year of Contact Tracing in a Swedish County
... Sexual networks. Genotype variants were linked to sexual networks identified through contact tracing. Examples of net- works for which sequencing provided information in addition to that obtained from ...
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Timeliness of contact tracing among flight passengers for influenza A/H1N1 2009
... that contact details that were identified too late or not at all, indeed more often originated from non-Dutch than from Dutch airline ...tact tracing protocol, communicated with the Interna- tional Civil ...
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Blockchain-enable Contact Tracing for Preserving User Privacy During COVID-19 Outbreak
... Previously contact tracing was done through manual process like the diagnosed patient is asked with whom he did contact or interact the previous 14 days to identify those people who have been exposed ...
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Contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Protection of personal information in South Africa
... The contact tracing regulations included in the COVID-19 disaster regulations include some basic principles to ensure privacy; however, other important principles are not ...
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Interventions to improve contact tracing for tuberculosis in specific groups and in wider populations: an evidence synthesis
... TB contact tracing in specific populations, and thereby examine the feasibility and usefulness of carrying out the ...of contact tracing in specific populations and a review of contact ...
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Combining contact tracing with targeted indoor residual spraying significantly reduces dengue transmission
... The fourth analytical step involved querying those locations identified with the Knox test to evaluate the impact of TIRS performed on contact locations on DENV transmission. Specifically, given the magnitude of ...
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The role of super spreading events in Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission: evidence from contact tracing
... Compared to index patients with pulmonary TB only, index patients with TB involving pulmonary and non- pulmonary sites were less infectious. This may be explained by those with extrapulmonary TB but minor CXR ...
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Real-time Estimation of Epidemiologic Parameters from Contact Tracing Data During an Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreak
... from contact tracing data in order to enhance decision-making and, subsequently, the efficacy and efficiency of outbreak ...symptoms. Contact definitions can then be made more specific during the ...
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Effectiveness of antiviral prophylaxis coupled with contact tracing in reducing the transmission of the influenza A (H1N1-2009): a systematic review
... certain contact into the likely effectiveness at a population level ...of contact tracing on the spread of ...the contact tracing with prophylaxis yielded an apparent reduction in the ...
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Use of a mobile application for Ebola contact tracing and monitoring in northern Sierra Leone: a proof of concept study
... for contact tracing in Sierra Leone during the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic was that, after the initial alert of a suspected or probable case, a case investigation team (CIT) investigated to deter- mine whether ...
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Contact tracing strategies in heterogeneous populations
... of contact tracing is the speed at which tracing is carried out ; for instance, it is of little benefit to trace all partners of an index case if tracing does not occur until infection has ...
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COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Challenges and Future Directions
... The authors in [52] proposed a privacy preserving centralised protocol for community driven contact tracing, BlueTrace, which is widely adopted or adapted by many countries. In BlueTrace protocol, two ...
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