Structured Summary
Abstract
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.
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Synonyms
21 entry terms
- Communicable Disease Contact Tracing
- Contact Investigation
- Contact Screening
- Infectious Disease Contact Tracing
- Investigation, Contact
- Screening, Contact
- Tracing, Contact
- Close Contact Epidemiology
- Index Case Epidemiology
- Index Patient Epidemiology
- Notification, Partner
- PUI Epidemiology
- Partner Notification
- Patient Zero Epidemiology
- Person Under Investigation Epidemiology
- Epidemiology, Close Contact
- Epidemiology, Index Case
- Epidemiology, Index Patient
- Epidemiology, PUI
- Epidemiology, Patient Zero
- Partner Notifications
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9 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings economics, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, statistics & numerical data, trends, veterinary.
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Indexing Annotation
coordinate with disease /epidemiol or /transm
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History Note
91
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Previous Indexing
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases/prevention & control (1966-1990)
- specific disease/prevention & control (1972-1990)
- specific infection/prevention & control (1986-1990)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Contact Tracing. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016358. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016358
- Contact Tracing. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_tracing
- Contact Tracing. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1128437