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Contact Tracing Activities during the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Kindia and Faranah, Guinea, 2014

The largest recorded Ebola virus disease epidemic began in March 2014; as of July 2015, it continued in 3 principally affected countries: Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Control efforts include contact tracing to expedite identification of the virus in suspect case-patients. We examined contact t...

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Autores principales: Dixon, Meredith G., Taylor, Melanie M., Dee, Jacob, Hakim, Avi, Cantey, Paul, Lim, Travis, Bah, Hawa, Camara, Sékou Mohamed, Ndongmo, Clement B., Togba, Mory, Touré, Leonie Yvonne, Bilivogui, Pepe, Sylla, Mohammed, Kinzer, Michael, Coronado, Fátima, Tongren, Jon Eric, Swaminathan, Mahesh, Mandigny, Lise, Diallo, Boubacar, Seyler, Thomas, Rondy, Marc, Rodier, Guénaël, Perea, William A., Dahl, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4622253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26488116
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201//eid2111.150684
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author Dixon, Meredith G.
Taylor, Melanie M.
Dee, Jacob
Hakim, Avi
Cantey, Paul
Lim, Travis
Bah, Hawa
Camara, Sékou Mohamed
Ndongmo, Clement B.
Togba, Mory
Touré, Leonie Yvonne
Bilivogui, Pepe
Sylla, Mohammed
Kinzer, Michael
Coronado, Fátima
Tongren, Jon Eric
Swaminathan, Mahesh
Mandigny, Lise
Diallo, Boubacar
Seyler, Thomas
Rondy, Marc
Rodier, Guénaël
Perea, William A.
Dahl, Benjamin
author_facet Dixon, Meredith G.
Taylor, Melanie M.
Dee, Jacob
Hakim, Avi
Cantey, Paul
Lim, Travis
Bah, Hawa
Camara, Sékou Mohamed
Ndongmo, Clement B.
Togba, Mory
Touré, Leonie Yvonne
Bilivogui, Pepe
Sylla, Mohammed
Kinzer, Michael
Coronado, Fátima
Tongren, Jon Eric
Swaminathan, Mahesh
Mandigny, Lise
Diallo, Boubacar
Seyler, Thomas
Rondy, Marc
Rodier, Guénaël
Perea, William A.
Dahl, Benjamin
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description The largest recorded Ebola virus disease epidemic began in March 2014; as of July 2015, it continued in 3 principally affected countries: Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Control efforts include contact tracing to expedite identification of the virus in suspect case-patients. We examined contact tracing activities during September 20–December 31, 2014, in 2 prefectures of Guinea using national and local data about case-patients and their contacts. Results show less than one third of case-patients (28.3% and 31.1%) were registered as contacts before case identification; approximately two thirds (61.1% and 67.7%) had no registered contacts. Time to isolation of suspected case-patients was not immediate (median 5 and 3 days for Kindia and Faranah, respectively), and secondary attack rates varied by relationships of persons who had contact with the source case-patient and the type of case-patient to which a contact was exposed. More complete contact tracing efforts are needed to augment control of this epidemic.
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spelling pubmed-46222532015-11-02 Contact Tracing Activities during the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Kindia and Faranah, Guinea, 2014 Dixon, Meredith G. Taylor, Melanie M. Dee, Jacob Hakim, Avi Cantey, Paul Lim, Travis Bah, Hawa Camara, Sékou Mohamed Ndongmo, Clement B. Togba, Mory Touré, Leonie Yvonne Bilivogui, Pepe Sylla, Mohammed Kinzer, Michael Coronado, Fátima Tongren, Jon Eric Swaminathan, Mahesh Mandigny, Lise Diallo, Boubacar Seyler, Thomas Rondy, Marc Rodier, Guénaël Perea, William A. Dahl, Benjamin Emerg Infect Dis Research The largest recorded Ebola virus disease epidemic began in March 2014; as of July 2015, it continued in 3 principally affected countries: Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Control efforts include contact tracing to expedite identification of the virus in suspect case-patients. We examined contact tracing activities during September 20–December 31, 2014, in 2 prefectures of Guinea using national and local data about case-patients and their contacts. Results show less than one third of case-patients (28.3% and 31.1%) were registered as contacts before case identification; approximately two thirds (61.1% and 67.7%) had no registered contacts. Time to isolation of suspected case-patients was not immediate (median 5 and 3 days for Kindia and Faranah, respectively), and secondary attack rates varied by relationships of persons who had contact with the source case-patient and the type of case-patient to which a contact was exposed. More complete contact tracing efforts are needed to augment control of this epidemic. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2015-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4622253/ /pubmed/26488116 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201//eid2111.150684 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Dixon, Meredith G.
Taylor, Melanie M.
Dee, Jacob
Hakim, Avi
Cantey, Paul
Lim, Travis
Bah, Hawa
Camara, Sékou Mohamed
Ndongmo, Clement B.
Togba, Mory
Touré, Leonie Yvonne
Bilivogui, Pepe
Sylla, Mohammed
Kinzer, Michael
Coronado, Fátima
Tongren, Jon Eric
Swaminathan, Mahesh
Mandigny, Lise
Diallo, Boubacar
Seyler, Thomas
Rondy, Marc
Rodier, Guénaël
Perea, William A.
Dahl, Benjamin
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title_fullStr Contact Tracing Activities during the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Kindia and Faranah, Guinea, 2014
title_full_unstemmed Contact Tracing Activities during the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Kindia and Faranah, Guinea, 2014
title_short Contact Tracing Activities during the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Kindia and Faranah, Guinea, 2014
title_sort contact tracing activities during the ebola virus disease epidemic in kindia and faranah, guinea, 2014
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4622253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26488116
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201//eid2111.150684
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