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Investigative Techniques > Epidemiologic Methods > Contact Tracing
Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Contact Tracing
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Contact Tracing
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Contact Tracing
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Contact Tracing
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Contact Tracing
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Contact Tracing

Preferred term

Contact Tracing  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • 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. The first identified case or patient in a communicable disease outbreak.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Communicable Disease Contact Tracing
  • Contact Investigation
  • Contact Screening
  • Infectious Disease Contact Tracing

Allowable Qualifier(s)

In other languages

  • Traçage des contacts

    French

  • Recherche des contacts
  • Traçage des contacts avec une maladie infectieuse
  • Traçage des contacts avec une maladie transmissible

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-VVBG83NB-Q

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