Contact Tracing: A Forgotten Tool?
Contact tracing is done to interrupt the spread or transmission of the causative agent to others who are in close contact with the index case and are vulnerable by not being immune. Public health experts have relied on contact tracing to reduce the spread of infections throughout history. Now the sa...
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Shalamar Medical & Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan,
2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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