ArticleInfectious Disease Modelling2021
Contact tracing - Old models and new challenges.
Article in Infectious Disease Modelling, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Antecedents predicting digital contact tracing acceptance: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2023Pooled it
- To trace or not to trace: analytical insights from network-based contact-tracing models.Journal of mathematical biology · 2026Article
- Shesha, a WhatsApp Chatbot for Linking Household Contacts to Tuberculosis Treatment or Preventive Therapy in South Africa: Design and Development.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Nonparametric serial interval estimation with uniform mixtures.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Effects of improved partner notification on the transmission of HIV andSexually transmitted infections · 2025Article
- Identifying impacts of contact tracing on HIV epidemiological inference from phylogenetic data.Virus evolution · 2025Article
- Contact tracing strategies for infectious diseases: A systematic literature review.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Early COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness: Informing Public Health Interventions and Hospital Capacity Planning Through Participatory Hybrid Simulation Modeling.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Modelling the effectiveness of an isolation strategy for managing mpox outbreaks with variable infectiousness profiles.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The Use of Contact Tracing Technologies for Infection Prevention and Control Purposes in Nosocomial Settings: A Systematic Literature Review.Infectious disease reports · 2024Review
- Mathematical modeling of contact tracing and stability analysis to inform its impact on disease outbreaks; an application to COVID-19.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2024Article
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- A beta-Poisson model for infectious disease transmission.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- A mathematical model to assess the effectiveness of test-trace-isolate-and-quarantine under limited capacities.PloS one · 2024Article
- Challenges and opportunities for improved contact tracing in Ghana: experiences from Coronavirus disease-2019-related contact tracing in the Bono region.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Optimizing the order of actions in a model of contact tracing.PNAS nexus · 2023Article
- Factors Associated With Using the COVID-19 Mobile Contact-Tracing App Among Individuals Diagnosed With SARS-CoV-2 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Observational Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Observational
- Modelling preventive measures and their effect on generation times in emerging epidemics.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Prioritising attributes for tuberculosis preventive treatment regimens: a modelling analysis.BMC medicine · 2022Article
- Challenges for modelling interventions for future pandemics.Epidemics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Contact tracing is an effective method to control emerging infectious diseases. Since the 1980's, modellers are developing a consistent theory for contact tracing, with the aim to find effective and efficient implementations, and to assess the effects of contact tracing on the spread of an infectious disease. Despite the progress made in the area, there remain important open questions. In addition, technological developments, especially in the field of molecular biology (genetic sequencing of pathogens) and modern communication (digital contact tracing), have posed new challenges for the modelling community. In the present paper, we discuss modelling approaches for contact tracing and identify some of the current challenges for the field.
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