Definitions for contact tracing
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1. Contact tracing

   In public health, contact tracing is the process of identifying persons who may have been exposed to an infected person ("contacts") and subsequent collection of further data to assess transmission. By tracing the contacts of infected individuals, testing them for infection, and isolating or treating the infected, this public health tool aims to reduce infections in the population. In addition to infection control, contact tracing serves as a means to identify high-risk and medically vulnerable populations who might be exposed to infection and facilitate appropriate medical care. In doing so, public health officials utilize contact tracing to conduct disease surveillance and prevent outbreaks. In cases of diseases of uncertain infectious potential, contact tracing is also sometimes performed to learn about disease characteristics, including infectiousness. Contact tracing is not always the most efficient method of addressing infectious disease. In areas of high disease prevalence, screening or focused testing may be more cost-effective.The goals of contact tracing include: Interrupting ongoing transmission and reduce the spread of an infection Alerting contacts to the possibility of infection and offer preventive services or prophylactic care Offering diagnosis, counseling and treatment to already infected individuals If the infection is treatable, helping prevent reinfection of the originally infected patient Learning about the epidemiology of a disease in a particular population Being a tool in multifaceted prevention strategy to effectively curb the spread of an infectious disease.

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1. Contact tracing

   In epidemiology, contact tracing is the identification and diagnosis of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person. For sexually transmitted diseases, this is generally limited to sexual partners and can fall under the heading of partner services, but for highly virulent diseases such as Ebola and tuberculosis, a thorough contact tracing would require information regarding casual contacts.

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1. Contact Tracing

   Identification of those persons (or animals) who have had such an association with an infected person, animal, or contaminated environment as to have had the opportunity to acquire the infection. Contact tracing is a generally accepted method for the control of sexually transmitted diseases.

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   The numerical value of contact tracing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of contact tracing in a Sentence

1. Michael Osterholm:

   Understanding that the whole thesis of contact tracing may just fall on this very issue [ of super spreaders ], if you have a small number of cases, you can clearly try to contact trace all of them, and you're not wondering if they're super spreaders or not. With many thousands of cases, you're always going to be trying to determine : what are the highest priority ? If you don't have a sense of who the super spreaders are, there's no way you can [ factor ] that in.

2. Aislynn Tolman-Hill:

   We are hearing and know that there are MANY instances where symptomatic campers are sent home but not getting tested, this is obviously a huge concern. If we are not made aware of these situations, we can not do contact tracing and notification of those exposed.

3. Rachel Batterham:

   Our findings show that loss of smell and taste is a highly reliable indicator that someone is likely to have Covid-19, and if we are to reduce the spread of this pandemic, it should now be considered by governments globally as a criterion for self-isolation, testing and contact tracing.

4. Chris Murray:

   It's a safer strategy to get the number of infections in the community down to a really low level, and then testing and contact tracing and isolation can work.

5. David Weiss:

   Contact tracing involves a lot of different sources and information, the core of it is interviews, to the stats that we collect digitally, to pictures of spaces, to all to all kinds of different things. And the information technology is helpful.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_Tracing
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=contact tracing