Selected article for: "contact tracing and transmission tracing"

Author: Klinkenberg, Don; Fraser, Christophe; Heesterbeek, Hans
Title: The Effectiveness of Contact Tracing in Emerging Epidemics
  • Document date: 2006_12_20
  • ID: 1n0rg5vd_4
    Snippet: where c is the reduction factor due to isolation, R 0 is the basic reproduction ratio, when no efforts are made to isolate, and R 0 pre is that part of R 0 occurring prior to detection. Contact tracing will lead to earlier prevention of transmission due to quarantine of traced infecteds, thereby reducing the uncontrolled transmission R 0 pre to R pre , and the reproduction ratio R to R q :.....
    Document: where c is the reduction factor due to isolation, R 0 is the basic reproduction ratio, when no efforts are made to isolate, and R 0 pre is that part of R 0 occurring prior to detection. Contact tracing will lead to earlier prevention of transmission due to quarantine of traced infecteds, thereby reducing the uncontrolled transmission R 0 pre to R pre , and the reproduction ratio R to R q :

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