Contact tracing: Unearthing key epidemiological features of COVID-19

COVID-19 is an emerging global pandemic with a steady rise in both morbidity and mortality over the past few months. Contact tracing of COVID-19 patients is an essential task to mitigate the spread. The following case was one of the initial patients reported from India and details the importance of...

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Autores principales: Ish, Pranav, Agrawal, Sumita, Goel, Akhil Dhanesh, Gupta, Nitesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7315379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32632351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X20933483
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description COVID-19 is an emerging global pandemic with a steady rise in both morbidity and mortality over the past few months. Contact tracing of COVID-19 patients is an essential task to mitigate the spread. The following case was one of the initial patients reported from India and details the importance of contact tracing, timely testing and adequate quarantine/isolation in disease control.
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spelling pubmed-73153792020-06-25 Contact tracing: Unearthing key epidemiological features of COVID-19 Ish, Pranav Agrawal, Sumita Goel, Akhil Dhanesh Gupta, Nitesh SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report COVID-19 is an emerging global pandemic with a steady rise in both morbidity and mortality over the past few months. Contact tracing of COVID-19 patients is an essential task to mitigate the spread. The following case was one of the initial patients reported from India and details the importance of contact tracing, timely testing and adequate quarantine/isolation in disease control. SAGE Publications 2020-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7315379/ /pubmed/32632351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X20933483 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Contact tracing: Unearthing key epidemiological features of COVID-19
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title_full Contact tracing: Unearthing key epidemiological features of COVID-19
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7315379/
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