Novel Use of Capture-Recapture Methods to Estimate Completeness of Contact Tracing during an Ebola Outbreak, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2018–2020

Novel Use of Capture-Recapture Methods to Estimate Completeness of Contact Tracing during an Ebola Outbreak, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2018–2020

Despite its critical role in containing outbreaks, the efficacy of contact tracing, measured as the sensitivity of case detection, remains an elusive metric. We estimated the sensitivity of contact tracing by applying unilist capture-recapture methods on data from the 2018–2020 outbreak of Ebola vi...

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Main Authors: Jonathan A. Polonsky, Dankmar Böhning, Mory Keita, Steve Ahuka-Mundeke, Justus Nsio-Mbeta, Aaron Aruna Abedi, Mathias Mossoko, Janne Estill, Olivia Keiser, Laurent Kaiser, Zabulon Yoti, Patarawan Sangnawakij, Rattana Lerdsuwansri, Victor J. Del Rio Vilas
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021
Subjects:
Ebola
Ebolavirus
viruses
contact tracing
disease outbreaks
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Medicine
R
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/3f8e91e7003b4ad4834d17b60f9d0432
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