Journal article
Using next generation matrices to estimate the proportion of infections that are not detected in an outbreak
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Contact tracing, where exposed individuals are followed up to break ongoing transmission chains, is a key pillar of outbreak response for infectious disease outbreaks. Unfortunately, these systems are not fully effective, and infections can still go undetected as people may not remember all their contacts or contacts may not be traced successfully. A large proportion of undetected infections suggests poor contact tracing and surveillance systems, which could be a potential area of improvement...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100637
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Epidemics Journal website
- Volume:
- 41
- Article number:
- 100637
- Publication date:
- 2022-10-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-10-03
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1878-0067
- ISSN:
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1755-4365
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1281504
- Local pid:
- pubs:1281504
- Deposit date:
- 2022-10-05
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- Unwin et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2022
- Rights statement:
- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/),
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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