"Contact Tracing" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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.
| Descriptor ID |
D016358
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.270 N06.850.520.270 N06.850.780.200.225
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| Concept/Terms |
Contact Tracing- Contact Tracing
- Tracing, Contact
- Infectious Disease Contact Tracing
- Communicable Disease Contact Tracing
Notification, Partner- Notification, Partner
- Notifications, Partner
- Partner Notifications
- Partner Notification
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Contact Tracing" by people in Profiles.
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Woodard L, Liaw W, Adepoju OE, Prabhu S, Chae M, Matuk-Villazon O, Beech BM. Evaluating a contact tracing course: How universities can develop the public health workforce. J Am Coll Health. 2024 Oct; 72(7):2111-2117.
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Kas-Osoka C, Moss J, Alexander L, Davis J, Parham I, Barre I, Cunningham-Erves J. African Americans views of COVID-19 contact tracing and testing. Am J Infect Control. 2022 05; 50(5):577-580.
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Matthew OO, Monaghan PF, Luque JS. The Novel Coronavirus and Undocumented Farmworkers in the United States. New Solut. 2021 05; 31(1):9-15.
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Beech BM, Woodard L. Contact Tracing: A Clarion Call for National Training Standards. Ethn Dis. 2020; 30(3):437-440.
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Khosravi A, Chaman R, Rohani-Rasaf M, Zare F, Mehravaran S, Emamian MH. The basic reproduction number and prediction of the epidemic size of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Shahroud, Iran. Epidemiol Infect. 2020 06 10; 148:e115.
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Pasquale DK, Doherty IA, Miller WC, Leone PA, Sampson LA, Ledford SL, Sebastian J, Dennis AM. Factors Associated With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections Linked in Genetic Clusters But Disconnected in Partner Tracing. Sex Transm Dis. 2020 02; 47(2):80-87.
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Barker BM, Rajan S, De Melo Teixeira M, Sewnarine M, Roe C, Engelthaler DM, Galgiani JN. Coccidioidal Meningitis in New York Traced to Texas by Fungal Genomic Analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 08 30; 69(6):1060-1062.
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John SA, Starks TJ, Rendina HJ, Parsons JT, Grov C. High willingness to use novel HIV and bacterial sexually transmitted infection partner notification, testing, and treatment strategies among gay and bisexual men. Sex Transm Infect. 2020 05; 96(3):173-176.
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Grubaugh ND, Ladner JT, Lemey P, Pybus OG, Rambaut A, Holmes EC, Andersen KG. Tracking virus outbreaks in the twenty-first century. Nat Microbiol. 2019 01; 4(1):10-19.
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Pasquale DK, Doherty IA, Sampson LA, Hu? S, Leone PA, Sebastian J, Ledford SL, Eron JJ, Miller WC, Dennis AM. Leveraging Phylogenetics to Understand HIV Transmission and Partner Notification Networks. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2018 08 01; 78(4):367-375.