TY - JOUR
T1 - Contact tracing - Old models and new challenges
AU - Müller, Johannes
AU - Kretzschmar, Mirjam
N1 - Funding Information:
This review article is supported by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through TUM International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE) , GSC 81, within the project GENOMIE QADOP (JM). MK was supported by two grants from The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) , grant number 10430022010001 , and grant number 91216062 , and by the H2020 project 101003480 (CORESMA).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - Contact tracing is an effective method to control emerging infectious diseases. Since the 1980's, modellers are developing a consistent theory for contact tracing, with the aim to find effective and efficient implementations, and to assess the effects of contact tracing on the spread of an infectious disease. Despite the progress made in the area, there remain important open questions. In addition, technological developments, especially in the field of molecular biology (genetic sequencing of pathogens) and modern communication (digital contact tracing), have posed new challenges for the modelling community. In the present paper, we discuss modelling approaches for contact tracing and identify some of the current challenges for the field.
AB - Contact tracing is an effective method to control emerging infectious diseases. Since the 1980's, modellers are developing a consistent theory for contact tracing, with the aim to find effective and efficient implementations, and to assess the effects of contact tracing on the spread of an infectious disease. Despite the progress made in the area, there remain important open questions. In addition, technological developments, especially in the field of molecular biology (genetic sequencing of pathogens) and modern communication (digital contact tracing), have posed new challenges for the modelling community. In the present paper, we discuss modelling approaches for contact tracing and identify some of the current challenges for the field.
KW - Contact tracing
KW - Mathematical models
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U2 - 10.1016/j.idm.2020.12.005
DO - 10.1016/j.idm.2020.12.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 33506153
SN - 2468-2152
VL - 6
SP - 222
EP - 231
JO - Infectious Disease Modelling
JF - Infectious Disease Modelling
ER -