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ArticleJournal of theoretical biology2020

Identification of the relative timing of infectiousness and symptom onset for outbreak control.

Robert C Cope, Joshua V Ross

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Article in Journal of theoretical biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Robert C CopeThe University of Adelaide, Stochastic Modelling & Operations Research Group, School of Mathematical Sciences, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
Joshua V RossThe University of Adelaide, Stochastic Modelling & Operations Research Group, School of Mathematical Sciences, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. Electronic address: joshua.ross@adelaide.edu.au.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In an outbreak of an emerging disease the epidemiological characteristics of the pathogen may be largely unknown. A key determinant of ability to control the outbreak is the relative timing of infectiousness and symptom onset. We provide a method for identifying this relationship with high accuracy based on data from simulated household-stratified symptom-onset data. Further, this can be achieved with observations taken on only a few specific days, chosen optimally, within each household. The information provided by this method may inform decision making processes for outbreak response. An accurate and computationally-efficient heuristic for determining the optimal surveillance scheme is introduced. This heuristic provides a novel approach to optimal design for Bayesian model discrimination.

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Disease OutbreaksBayes TheoremBayesian model discriminationEpidemiologyOptimal experimental designRandom forests.

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PMID31734243
PMCPMC7094159

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