Sentence examples for contacts of a case from inspiring English sources

[11], [12], [13], [14] Quarantine measures also potentially altered the risk of infection to household contacts of a case.

Although a formal cost-benefit analysis would be necessary to systematically compare costs, given considerable practical difficulties and low added value, the policy of excluding young children who are asymptomatic contacts of a case with shigellosis should be revisited.

The contact structure of the network is illustrated in Figure 2. Observe that individuals b and c are household contacts of individual a, so that if individual a were a smallpox case, an attempt would be made to find and vaccinate individuals b and c as household contacts of a case.

Smith et al. reported that 1 of 207 close contacts of a case-patient with MHF contracted the virus (5 ).

Without identification of all contacts of a case-patient, it is not possible to provide adequate follow-up and ensure prompt isolation if those contacts become symptomatic.

Starting in October 2006 the B3 genotype was isolated in a contact of a case from the school outbreak, overlapping for some time with genotype D4.

We created an individual 50 meter radius buffer around each VL case household; any control living within any of those buffer zones was considered to be contact of a case.

Cross-sectional survey administered via the internet and computer assisted telephone interview to families whose school children were recommended to go into home quarantine because they were diagnosed with H1N1 or were a close contact of a case.

By order of declining importance, non-mutually exclusive risk factors were: travel to endemic countries (30%), MSM (18%), household contact of a case (10%), IDU (6%) and others (homeless, institutionalized patient, patient with chronic liver disease) (5%).

We have modeled the effect of multiple contact-finding attempts conservatively in the sense that if the first attempt to find an individual as a household contact (of a case or of a contact) is determined to fail, no further attempts will be made.

However, to this point, there are no reports of secondary invasive disease cases (i.e., a case of invasive Hia disease occurring in a close or household contact of a case-patient with Hia disease), and thus, a key component of the justification for a chemoprophylaxis control strategy is missing: identification of those at risk for secondary disease once a sentinel case has occurred.