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Contact tracing – Old models and new challenges

Contact tracing is an effective method to control emerging infectious diseases. Since the 1980’s, modellers are developing a consistent theory for contact tracing, with the aim to find effective and efficient implementations, and to assess the effects of contact tracing on the spread of an infectiou...

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Autores principales: Müller, Johannes, Kretzschmar, Mirjam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: KeAi Publishing 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7806945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33506153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idm.2020.12.005
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description Contact tracing is an effective method to control emerging infectious diseases. Since the 1980’s, modellers are developing a consistent theory for contact tracing, with the aim to find effective and efficient implementations, and to assess the effects of contact tracing on the spread of an infectious disease. Despite the progress made in the area, there remain important open questions. In addition, technological developments, especially in the field of molecular biology (genetic sequencing of pathogens) and modern communication (digital contact tracing), have posed new challenges for the modelling community. In the present paper, we discuss modelling approaches for contact tracing and identify some of the current challenges for the field.
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spelling pubmed-78069452021-01-26 Contact tracing – Old models and new challenges Müller, Johannes Kretzschmar, Mirjam Infect Dis Model Original Research Article Contact tracing is an effective method to control emerging infectious diseases. Since the 1980’s, modellers are developing a consistent theory for contact tracing, with the aim to find effective and efficient implementations, and to assess the effects of contact tracing on the spread of an infectious disease. Despite the progress made in the area, there remain important open questions. In addition, technological developments, especially in the field of molecular biology (genetic sequencing of pathogens) and modern communication (digital contact tracing), have posed new challenges for the modelling community. In the present paper, we discuss modelling approaches for contact tracing and identify some of the current challenges for the field. KeAi Publishing 2020-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7806945/ /pubmed/33506153 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idm.2020.12.005 Text en © 2021 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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