Impact of contact tracing on SARS-CoV-2 transmission

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¹ Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
² Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: viboudc@mail.nih.gov.

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Kaiyuan Sun et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;20(8):876-877.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30357-1. Epub 2020 Apr 27.

¹ Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
² Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: viboudc@mail.nih.gov.

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Epidemiology and transmission of COVID-19 in 391 cases and 1286 of their close contacts in Shenzhen, China: a retrospective cohort study.
Bi Q, Wu Y, Mei S, Ye C, Zou X, Zhang Z, Liu X, Wei L, Truelove SA, Zhang T, Gao W, Cheng C, Tang X, Wu X, Wu Y, Sun B, Huang S, Sun Y, Zhang J, Ma T, Lessler J, Feng T. Bi Q, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Aug;20(8):911-919. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30287-5. Epub 2020 Apr 27. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020. PMID: 32353347 Free PMC article.

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