Contact Tracing

"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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	E05.318.270 N06.850.520.270 N06.850.780.200.225
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

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Contact Tracing".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Investigative Techniques [E05]
Epidemiologic Methods [E05.318]
Contact Tracing [E05.318.270]
Health Care [N]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Methods [N06.850.520]
Contact Tracing [N06.850.520.270]
Public Health Practice [N06.850.780]
Communicable Disease Control [N06.850.780.200]
Contact Tracing [N06.850.780.200.225]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2005	1	0	1
2007	1	0	1
2009	1	1	2
2011	1	1	2
2012	0	2	2
2014	1	0	1
2017	1	0	1
2018	1	1	2
2019	1	0	1
2020	2	1	3
2021	0	1	1
2022	0	1	1

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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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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.

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Katz AR, Komeya AY, Kirkcaldy RD, Whelen AC, Soge OO, Papp JR, Kersh EN, Wasserman GM, O'Connor NP, O'Brien PS, Sato DT, Maningas EV, Kunimoto GY, Tomas JE. Cluster of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Isolates With High-level Azithromycin Resistance and Decreased Ceftriaxone Susceptibility, Hawaii, 2016. Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Sep 15; 65(6):918-923.

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Pines HA, Patterson TL, Rangel G, Martinez G, Bazzi AR, Ulibarri MD, Syvertsen JL, Martin NK, Strathdee SA. STI/HIV test result disclosure between female sex workers and their primary, non-commercial male partners in two Mexico-US border cities: a prospective study. Sex Transm Infect. 2015 May; 91(3):207-13.

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