ArticlePLoS computational biology2010
The impact of contact tracing in clustered populations.
Article in PLoS computational biology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.
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- Follow the Sex: Influence of Network Structure on the Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Partner Management Strategies for Sexually Transmitted Infection Control.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2020Article
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- Conflicts of interest during contact investigations: a game-theoretic analysis.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2014Article
- Social encounter networks: characterizing Great Britain.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2013Article
- Vaccination and clinical severity: is the effectiveness of contact tracing and case isolation hampered by past vaccination?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2013Article
- Social encounter networks: collective properties and disease transmission.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2012Article
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Abstract
The tracing of potentially infectious contacts has become an important part of the control strategy for many infectious diseases, from early cases of novel infections to endemic sexually transmitted infections. Here, we make use of mathematical models to consider the case of partner notification for sexually transmitted infection, however these models are sufficiently simple to allow more general conclusions to be drawn. We show that, when contact network structure is considered in addition to contact tracing, standard "mass action" models are generally inadequate. To consider the impact of mutual contacts (specifically clustering) we develop an improvement to existing pairwise network models, which we use to demonstrate that ceteris paribus, clustering improves the efficacy of contact tracing for a large region of parameter space. This result is sometimes reversed, however, for the case of highly effective contact tracing. We also develop stochastic simulations for comparison, using simple re-wiring methods that allow the generation of appropriate comparator networks. In this way we contribute to the general theory of network-based interventions against infectious disease.
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