contact tracing

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01:00 Apr 3, 2020
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COVID-19 - Medical - Medical (general)
Additional field(s): Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-), Medical: Health Care, Science (general), Journalism
English term or phrase: contact tracing
Definition from Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
The practice of identifying and monitoring individuals who may have had contact with an infectious person as a means of controlling the spread of a communicable disease

Example sentence(s):
  • How The Painstaking Work Of Contact Tracing Can Slow The Spread Of An Outbreak NPR
  • Today they use rapid contact tracing to track an outbreak from its source to its spread in an effort to contain it. Axios
  • Contact tracing is one of the interventions that have been used to effectively control Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks in Africa. World Health Organization
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5 +1接触者追踪
Kiet Bach


  

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接触者追踪


Definition from tuberkuloosi.fi:
接触者追踪是一种用来阻止传染病在社区中传播的流程。

Example sentence(s):
  • 接触者追踪是进一步降低结核病发病率的重要方法。Cochrane综述的作者没有发现针对这个问题的研究。因此,需要开展进一步的研究,以确定替代的接触者追踪方法能否在发现的接触者数量和患病人数比例方面产生更大的效益。 - Cochrane  
Kiet Bach
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