Real-time Estimation of Epidemiologic Parameters from Contact Tracing Data During an Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreak.

Soetens, Loes; Klinkenberg, Don; Swaan, Corien; Hahné, Susan; Wallinga, Jacco

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Soetens, Loes
Klinkenberg, Don
Swaan, Corien
Hahné, Susan
Wallinga, Jacco

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Real-time Estimation of Epidemiologic Parameters from Contact Tracing Data During an Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreak.

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Epidemiology 2018; 29(2):230-6

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Contact tracing can provide accurate information on relevant parameters of an ongoing emerging infectious disease outbreak. This is crucial to investigators seeking to control such an outbreak. However, crude contact tracing data are difficult to interpret and methods for analyzing these data are scarce. We present a method to estimate and visualize key outbreak parameters from contact tracing information in real time by taking into account data censoring.