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Contact tracing and genomic surveillance accurately track COVID-19 transmission pathways
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Is it true that contact tracing and genomic surveillance accurately track COVID-19 transmission pathways?
Yes. 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.
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Evidence for · 13
Merges genomic sequences with surveillance data to evaluate contact tracing, finding it uncovers plausible spread settings.
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Anderson, B., Ouyang, D., D’Agostino, A., Bonin, B., Smith, E., & Kraushaar, V. (2023). iScience: Leveraging genomic sequencing data to evaluate disease surveillance strategies. iScience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108488
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Evaluates surveillance strategies by merging genomic sequencing data with contact tracing data.
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OpenAIRE: Leveraging genomic sequencing data to evaluate disease surveillance strategies. (2023). OpenAIRE. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108488
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Shows combining contact tracing data with genomic surveillance successfully tracked an outbreak's spread.
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Yaglom, H. D., Maurer, M., Collins, B., Hojnacki, J., Monroy-Nieto, J., & Bowers, J. R. (2022). PLoS ONE: One health genomic surveillance and response to a university-based outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta AY.25 lineage, Arizona, 2021.. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272830
Describes the use of digital contact tracing and genomic surveillance in Morocco's COVID-19 response.
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Dehbi, Z. E. O., Sedrati, H., Sedrati, H., Chaqsare, S., Azami, A. I., & Merzouki, M. (2021). Frontiers in Public Health: Moroccan Digital Health Response to the COVID-19 Crisis. Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.690462
Matches contact tracing data to SARS-CoV-2 genomes to track a university outbreak and transmission.
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Yaglom, H. D., Maurer, M., Collins, B., Hojnacki, J., Monroy-Nieto, J., & Bowers, J. R. (2022). PLoS ONE: One health genomic surveillance and response to a university-based outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta AY.25 lineage, Arizona, 2021. PLoS ONE. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9621446/?tool=EBI
Combines whole-genome sequencing with epidemiology to successfully track infection sources in healthcare.
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Sansom, S., Barbian, H., Snitkin, E., Fukuda, C., Moore, N., & Thotapalli, L. (2022). Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology: Genomic investigation to identify the source of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare personnel. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.198
Notes genomic sequencing and contact tracing are critical tools for tracing transmission chains.
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OpenAIRE: Leveraging Genomic Data for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Personalized Medicine: Advances in Public Health Genomics and COVID-19 Pathway Analysis. (2024). OpenAIRE. https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-8818/2025.18030
Demonstrates genetic validity and effectiveness of using contact tracing data combined with genomics for cluster surveillance.
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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). OpenAIRE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000485
Mentions contact tracing and genomic surveillance as part of evaluated surveillance systems.
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OpenAIRE: Optimizing surveillance post-pandemic: an evaluation of COVID-19 and other respiratory virus surveillance systems in the Philippines, April 2023. (2025). OpenAIRE. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-24208-8
Discusses the necessity of epidemiological genomic surveillance and contact tracing in Africa.
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OpenAIRE: Approaching COVID‐19 with epidemiological genomic surveillance and the sustainability of biodiversity informatics in Africa. (2022). OpenAIRE. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.28308
Notes that African countries used contact tracing and genomic sequencing to monitor disease trends.
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OpenAIRE: COVID-19 surveillance in Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda: strengths, weaknesses and key Lessons. (2023). OpenAIRE. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15708-6
Demonstrates how genomic surveillance and tracing successfully uncover SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics.
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Shishir, T. A., Jannat, T., & Naser, I. B. (2022). Genomic surveillance unfolds the SARS-CoV-2 transmission and divergence dynamics in Bangladesh. peer-reviewed literature. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.966939
Shows genomic surveillance tracks infection dynamics, though focuses primarily on environmental wastewater monitoring.
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Lamba, S., Sutharsan, G., Daroch, N., Paul, K., Joshi, S. G., Darshan, S., Annamalai, N., Vishwanath, S., Mishra, R., Ramakrishnan, U., & Ishtiaq, F. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 infection dynamics and genomic surveillance reveals early variant transmission in urban wastewater. peer-reviewed literature. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.14.22277616
Integrates genomic data with epidemiological information to monitor SARS-CoV-2 transmission waves.
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C, S., NS, T., I, F., A, C., M, P., P, P., A, M., V, B., R, C., N, R., T, F., L, S., B, R., M, A., M, M., G, I., G, M., & P, M. (2026). Impact of timely vaccination and genomic surveillance on controlling consecutive waves of SARS-CoV-2 variants.. peer-reviewed literature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-48131-z
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