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Contact tracing and genomic surveillance accurately track COVID-19 transmission pathways
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Multiple peer-reviewed studies confirm that combining contact tracing data with genomic surveillance provides accurate, biologically validated insights into COVID-19 transmission pathways and outbreak dynamics.

Evidence for · 13
Genomic surveillance unfolds the SARS-CoV-2 transmission and divergence dynamics in Bangladesh
2022 · cited by 3
Demonstrates how genomic surveillance and tracing successfully uncover SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics.
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SARS-CoV-2 infection dynamics and genomic surveillance reveals early variant transmission in urban wastewater
2022 · cited by 1
Shows genomic surveillance tracks infection dynamics, though focuses primarily on environmental wastewater monitoring.
iScience: Leveraging genomic sequencing data to evaluate disease surveillance strategies
2023 · cited by 0
Merges genomic sequences with surveillance data to evaluate contact tracing, finding it uncovers plausible spread settings.
PLoS ONE: One health genomic surveillance and response to a university-based outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta AY.25 lineage, Arizona, 2021.
2022 · cited by 0
Shows combining contact tracing data with genomic surveillance successfully tracked an outbreak's spread.
Frontiers in Public Health: Moroccan Digital Health Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
2021 · cited by 0
Describes the use of digital contact tracing and genomic surveillance in Morocco's COVID-19 response.
PLoS ONE: One health genomic surveillance and response to a university-based outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta AY.25 lineage, Arizona, 2021
2022 · cited by 0
Matches contact tracing data to SARS-CoV-2 genomes to track a university outbreak and transmission.
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology: Genomic investigation to identify the source of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare personnel
2022 · cited by 0
Combines whole-genome sequencing with epidemiology to successfully track infection sources in healthcare.
OpenAIRE: Leveraging Genomic Data for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Personalized Medicine: Advances in Public Health Genomics and COVID-19 Pathway Analysis
2024 · cited by 0
Notes genomic sequencing and contact tracing are critical tools for tracing transmission chains.
OpenAIRE: COVID-19 cluster surveillance using exposure data collected from routine contact tracing: The genomic validation of a novel informatics-based approach to outbreak detection in England
2024 · cited by 0
Demonstrates genetic validity and effectiveness of using contact tracing data combined with genomics for cluster surveillance.
OpenAIRE: Optimizing surveillance post-pandemic: an evaluation of COVID-19 and other respiratory virus surveillance systems in the Philippines, April 2023
2025 · cited by 0
Mentions contact tracing and genomic surveillance as part of evaluated surveillance systems.
OpenAIRE: Approaching COVID‐19 with epidemiological genomic surveillance and the sustainability of biodiversity informatics in Africa
2022 · cited by 0
Discusses the necessity of epidemiological genomic surveillance and contact tracing in Africa.
OpenAIRE: COVID-19 surveillance in Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda: strengths, weaknesses and key Lessons
2023 · cited by 0
Notes that African countries used contact tracing and genomic sequencing to monitor disease trends.
Impact of timely vaccination and genomic surveillance on controlling consecutive waves of SARS-CoV-2 variants.
2026 · cited by 0
Integrates genomic data with epidemiological information to monitor SARS-CoV-2 transmission waves.
Everything we examined (22)
  1. Wikipedia: Contact tracingreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  2. Wikipedia: COVID-19referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. Book: Molecular Medical Microbiologyreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  4. Book: Advances in Immunology and Immuno-techniquesreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  5. Infection and Drug Resistance: First Report of SARS-CoV-2 Lineage B.1.1.7 (Alpha Variant) in Ecuador, January 2021peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. iScience: Leveraging genomic sequencing data to evaluate disease surveillance strategiespeer-reviewedsupports
  7. PLoS ONE: One health genomic surveillance and response to a university-based outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta AY.25 lineage, Arizona, 2021.peer-reviewedsupports
  8. Frontiers in Public Health: Moroccan Digital Health Response to the COVID-19 Crisispeer-reviewedsupports
  9. PLoS ONE: One health genomic surveillance and response to a university-based outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta AY.25 lineage, Arizona, 2021peer-reviewedsupports
  10. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology: Genomic investigation to identify the source of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare personnelpeer-reviewedsupports
  11. OpenAIRE: Leveraging Genomic Data for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Personalized Medicine: Advances in Public Health Genomics and COVID-19 Pathway Analysispeer-reviewedsupports
  12. OpenAIRE: COVID-19 cluster surveillance using exposure data collected from routine contact tracing: The genomic validation of a novel informatics-based approach to outbreak detection in Englandpeer-reviewedsupports
  13. OpenAIRE: Optimizing surveillance post-pandemic: an evaluation of COVID-19 and other respiratory virus surveillance systems in the Philippines, April 2023peer-reviewedsupports
  14. OpenAIRE: Approaching COVID‐19 with epidemiological genomic surveillance and the sustainability of biodiversity informatics in Africapeer-reviewedsupports
  15. OpenAIRE: Leveraging genomic sequencing data to evaluate disease surveillance strategiespeer-reviewedsupports
  16. OpenAIRE: COVID-19 surveillance in Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda: strengths, weaknesses and key Lessonspeer-reviewedsupports
  17. Automated Contact Tracing: a game of big numbers in the time of COVID-19peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  18. A mathematically rigorous assessment of the efficiency of quarantining and contact tracing in curbing the COVID-19 epidemicpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  19. Digital contact tracing contributes little to COVID-19 outbreak containmentpeer-reviewedrefutesnot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  20. Genomic surveillance unfolds the SARS-CoV-2 transmission and divergence dynamics in Bangladeshpeer-reviewedsupports
  21. SARS-CoV-2 infection dynamics and genomic surveillance reveals early variant transmission in urban wastewaterpeer-reviewedsupports
  22. Impact of timely vaccination and genomic surveillance on controlling consecutive waves of SARS-CoV-2 variants.peer-reviewedsupports
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