Selected article for: "China outbreak and contact tracing"

Author: Joel Hellewell; Sam Abbott; Amy Gimma; Nikos I Bosse; Christopher I Jarvis; Timothy W Russell; James D Munday; Adam J Kucharski; W John Edmunds; CMMID nCoV working group; Sebastian Funk; Rosalind M Eggo
Title: Feasibility of controlling 2019-nCoV outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts
  • Document date: 2020_2_11
  • ID: a8ig607t_8
    Snippet: Isolation of cases and contact tracing becomes less effective if infectiousness begins before the onset of symptoms 5, 6 . For example, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak that began in Southern China in 2003 was amenable to eventual control through tracing contacts of suspected cases and isolating confirmed cases because the majority of transmission occurred after symptom onset 7 . These interventions also play a major role in .....
    Document: Isolation of cases and contact tracing becomes less effective if infectiousness begins before the onset of symptoms 5, 6 . For example, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak that began in Southern China in 2003 was amenable to eventual control through tracing contacts of suspected cases and isolating confirmed cases because the majority of transmission occurred after symptom onset 7 . These interventions also play a major role in response to outbreaks where onset of symptoms and infectiousness are concurrent 10 , for example Ebola virus disease 8, 9 and MERS 10, 11 , and for many other infections 12, 13 .

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