Parameter estimation for contact tracing in graph-based models

A Okolie, J Müller… - Journal of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We adopt a maximum-likelihood framework to estimate parameters of a stochastic
susceptible–infected–recovered (SIR) model with contact tracing on a rooted random tree …

[PDF][PDF] Dynamic graph based epidemiological model for COVID-19 contact tracing data analysis and optimal testing prescription

S Ubaru, L Horesh, G Cohen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.04971, 2020 - researchgate.net
In this study, we address three important challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic,
namely,(a) providing an early warning to likely exposed individuals,(b) identifying …

[HTML][HTML] Contact tracing as a measure to combat COVID-19 and other infectious diseases

M Du - American Journal of Infection Control, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Most of the mathematical modeling studies on COVID-19 transmission are
based on continuous deterministic models that do not consider the characteristics of social …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic graph and polynomial chaos based models for contact tracing data analysis and optimal testing prescription

S Ubaru, L Horesh, G Cohen - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, we address three important challenges related to disease transmissions such
as the COVID-19 pandemic, namely,(a) providing an early warning to likely exposed …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating the generation interval and inferring the latent period of COVID-19 from the contact tracing data

S Zhao, B Tang, SS Musa, S Ma, J Zhang, M Zeng… - Epidemics, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged by end of 2019, and became a
serious public health threat globally in less than half a year. The generation interval and …

Contact graph epidemic modelling of covid-19 for transmission and intervention strategies

A Leung, X Ding, S Huang, R Rabbany - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.03081, 2020 - arxiv.org
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has quickly become a global public
health crisis unseen in recent years. It is known that the structure of the human contact …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of a COVID-19 contact tracing app in a simulation model with indirect and informal contact tracing

KY Leung, E Metting, W Ebbers, I Veldhuijzen… - Epidemics, 2024 - Elsevier
During the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing was used to identify individuals who had
been in contact with a confirmed case so that these contacted individuals could be tested …

[HTML][HTML] Contact tracing evaluation for COVID-19 transmission in the different movement levels of a rural college town in the USA

SA Moon, CM Scoglio - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Contact tracing can play a key role in controlling human-to-human transmission of a highly
contagious disease such as COVID-19. We investigate the benefits and costs of contact …

Effect of manual and digital contact tracing on covid-19 outbreaks: A study on empirical contact data

A Barrat, C Cattuto, M Kivelä… - Journal of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Non-pharmaceutical interventions are crucial to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and
contain re-emergence phenomena. Targeted measures such as case isolation and contact …

Heterogeneity is essential for contact tracing

BF Nielsen, K Sneppen, L Simonsen, J Mathiesen - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Background (Dated: June 5, 2020) The COVID-19 pandemic is most often modelled by well-
mixed models, sometimes stratified by age and work. People are, however, different from …