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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dixon, Meredith G
• Taylor, Melanie M
• Dee, Jacob
• Hakim, Avi
• Cantey, Paul
• Lim, Travis
• Bah, Hawa
• Camara, Sékou Mohamed
• Ndongmo, Clement B
• Togba, Mory
• Touré, Leonie Yvonne
• Bilivogui, Pepe
• Sylla, Mohammed
• Kinzer, Michael
• Coronado, Fátima
• Tongren, Jon Eric
• Swaminathan, Mahesh
• Mandigny, Lise
• Diallo, Boubacar
• Seyler, Thomas
• Rondy, Marc
• Rodier, Guénaël
• Perea, William A
• Dahl, Benjamin

Titel

Contact Tracing Activities during the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Kindia and Faranah, Guinea, 2014

Ist Teil von

• Emerging infectious diseases, 2015-11, Vol.21 (11), p.2022-2028

Ort / Verlag

United States: U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The largest recorded Ebola virus disease epidemic began in March 2014; as of July 2015, it continued in 3 principally affected countries: Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Control efforts include contact tracing to expedite identification of the virus in suspect case-patients. We examined contact tracing activities during September 20-December 31, 2014, in 2 prefectures of Guinea using national and local data about case-patients and their contacts. Results show less than one third of case-patients (28.3% and 31.1%) were registered as contacts before case identification; approximately two thirds (61.1% and 67.7%) had no registered contacts. Time to isolation of suspected case-patients was not immediate (median 5 and 3 days for Kindia and Faranah, respectively), and secondary attack rates varied by relationships of persons who had contact with the source case-patient and the type of case-patient to which a contact was exposed. More complete contact tracing efforts are needed to augment control of this epidemic.