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Contact Investigation

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Contact Investigation
The interviewing of a person known to have a particular disease to detect exposure to others and to determine the need for subsequent screening for the disease of interest—e.g., tuberculosis
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A contact investigation was undertaken by the hospital and local, state, federal, and international health agencies.
Imported Lassa fever, Pennsylvania, USA, 2010 by Amorosa, Valerianna; MacNeil, Adam; McConnell, Ryan; Patel, Ami; Dillon, Katherine E.; Hamilton, Kei / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The authors describe the difficulties of performing a contact investigation of a suspected TB case among a local national civilian during deployment to a remote area of Afghanistan.
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32), (33) Perhaps such maternal and pediatric factors can better be assessed in the interviews that are performed as part of a contact investigation of a pertussis case (34), (35) Asking about maternal and pediatric characteristics during a pertussis case investigation would be more timely than examining birth certificate data and might be useful in identifying especially high-risk contacts and should be evaluated in a prospective manner.
Use of birth certificates and surveillance data to characterize ... by Schulte, Joann M. / Southern Medical Journal
 
 
 
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