Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review

F Pozo-Martin, MA Beltran Sanchez, SA Müller… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Contact tracing is a non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) widely used in the control of the
COVID-19 pandemic. Its effectiveness may depend on a number of factors including the …

Effectiveness of testing, contact tracing and isolation interventions among the general population on reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review

H Littlecott, C Herd, J O'Rourke… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We conducted a systematic literature review of general population testing, contact tracing,
case isolation and contact quarantine interventions to assess their effectiveness in reducing …

Modelling that shaped the early COVID-19 pandemic response in the UK

E Brooks-Pollock, L Danon… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Infectious disease modelling has played an integral part of the scientific evidence used to
guide the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the UK, modelling evidence used for …

Empirical evidence on the efficiency of backward contact tracing in COVID-19

J Raymenants, C Geenen, J Thibaut, K Nelissen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Standard contact tracing practice for COVID-19 is to identify persons exposed to an infected
person during the contagious period, assumed to start two days before symptom onset or …

[HTML][HTML] An age-cohort simulation model for generating COVID-19 scenarios: A study from Ireland's pandemic response

J Duggan, J Andrade, TB Murphy, JP Gleeson… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic presented an immediate need for the Irish Government to
establish modelling capacity in order to inform public health decision making. A broad …

Attitudes towards booster, testing and isolation, and their impact on COVID-19 response in winter 2022/2023 in France, Belgium, and Italy: A cross-sectional survey …

G de Meijere, E Valdano, C Castellano… - The Lancet Regional …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background European countries are focusing on testing, isolation, and boosting strategies to
counter the 2022/2023 winter surge due to SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants. However …

A review of using mathematical modeling to improve our understanding of bacteriophage, bacteria, and eukaryotic interactions

KM Styles, AT Brown, AP Sagona - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Phage therapy, the therapeutic usage of viruses to treat bacterial infections, has many
theoretical benefits in the 'post antibiotic era.'Nevertheless, there are currently no approved …

[PDF][PDF] Implications of the further emergence and spread of the SARS CoV 2 B. 1.1. 529 variant of concern (Omicron) for the EU/EEA first update

TA Brief - Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention …, 2021 - cde.ual.es
The number of countries reporting SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant of concern (VOC) cases
continues to increase globally, with a total of 352 confirmed cases reported by 27 countries …

Parameter estimation for contact tracing in graph-based models

A Okolie, J Müller… - Journal of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We adopt a maximum-likelihood framework to estimate parameters of a stochastic
susceptible–infected–recovered (SIR) model with contact tracing on a rooted random tree …

[HTML][HTML] The value of manual backward contact tracing to control COVID-19 in practice, the Netherlands, February to March 2021: a pilot study

TL Boelsums, IAT van de Luitgaarden… - …, 2023 - eurosurveillance.org
Background Contact tracing has been a key component of COVID-19 outbreak control.
Backward contact tracing (BCT) aims to trace the source that infected the index case and …