Contact Tracing
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13. Measuring the outcome of contact tracing. 2. The responsibilities of the health worker and the outcome of contact investigations.
The previous paper (Satin and Mills, 1978) concerned information on patients who were interviewed by health workers in five selected clinics; information on the contacts named by these patients was similarly analysed. This paper describes and evaluates the activities of the health workers and the outcome of contact investigations. At all stages of the contac
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14. Asymptomatic urethral gonorrhoea in men.
Over a period of nine months 203 cases of urethral gonorrhoea were seen in 188 men. In 36 (17%) of the cases there were no symptoms, and in 14 (7%) the symptoms were considered so mild that the patients thought medical care was unnecessary. The symptomless patients and those with mild symptoms were found only as a result of efficient contact tracing. This hi
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15. Tuberculosis contact tracing: are the British Thoracic Society guidelines still appropriate?
The value of contact tracing in South Glamorgan for the period May 1987 to December 1989 was assessed. Tuberculosis was diagnosed in six (3.5%) of 170 close contacts. All were young and were detected in the initial screening. Tuberculosis was not found among 441 casual contacts. The value of follow up of contacts after the initial screening and of screening
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16. Health advisers (contact tracers) in sexually transmitted disease.
Contact tracing has always been a vital element in the control of sexually transmitted disease (STD), and the early full time contact tracers were more effective than doctors in this work. Those appointed to the early posts had to train themselves and they concentrated on contact tracing. Training has now improved, and most contact tracers in Britain, now ca
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17. Improved methods of contact tracing.
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18. Contact-tracing in gonorrhoea.
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19. A Contact-Tracing Procedure*
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20. Points: Contact tracing in pelvic inflammatory disease
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21. Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Hamburg, Germany: Long-Term Population-Based Analysis Applying Classical and Molecular Epidemiological Techniques
To determine a detailed picture of tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology in Hamburg, Germany, 423 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from 77.0% of all patients with culture-confirmed TB diagnosed from 1997 to 1999 in Hamburg were analyzed by IS6110 DNA fingerprinting. IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) clusters were assumed to have aris
American Society for Microbiology.
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22. Value of re-interviewing in contact tracing.
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23. Handbook on Contact Tracing in Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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24. New methods of contact tracing in infectious venereal diseases.