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The Effectiveness of Contact Tracing in Emerging Epidemics

BACKGROUND: Contact tracing plays an important role in the control of emerging infectious diseases, but little is known yet about its effectiveness. Here we deduce from a generic mathematical model how effectiveness of tracing relates to various aspects of time, such as the course of individual infe...

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Autores principales: Klinkenberg, Don, Fraser, Christophe, Heesterbeek, Hans
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1762362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17183638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000012