contact tracing

contact tracing

See also: contact-tracing

English

Alternative forms

• contact-tracing

Noun

contact tracing (countable and uncountable, plural contact tracings)

1. (epidemiology) The process of identification of persons ("contacts") who may have come into contact with a person carrying an infectious disease.
   • 1989 June 8, “The Case for Tracing AIDS Partners”, in The New York Times‎:

     There's a strong case for replacing the present system of anonymous testing with mandatory reporting of new infections, and vigorous contact tracing of sexual and needle-sharing partners.

   • 2020 April 22, Kie Relyea, “State asks National Guard for 500 people to help with coronavirus contact tracing work”, in The Bellingham Herald‎:

     Other health care professionals also may be trained as part of the effort to more than double to 1,500 the number of people conducting interviews and contact tracings on an ongoing basis.

   • 2020 August 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail at the brink? Not yet...”, in Rail, page 3:

     New research from RSSB [...] shows that in a typical UK train, you have around a 1-in-11,000 chance of catching COVID-19. This reflects German research by DB which concluded: "To our knowledge, not a single contact tracing has been identified in Germany and Austria as having been triggered by an infection on the train journey."

   • 2020 November 20, Tom McCarthy, “Republican officials finally forced into action on Covid-19 as reality bites”, in The Guardian‎:

     For millions of American lives touched by the coronavirus, it was too late to correct the failure to stand up protocols for masking and social distancing, testing and contact-tracing. But negative consequences of the culture war around the pandemic could still lie ahead, damaging the national vaccination effort.

Related terms

• contact trace, contact tracer

Translations

the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bengali: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 接觸者追蹤／接触者追踪 (zh) (jiēchùzhě zhuīzōng) Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: bron- en contactonderzoek n Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kontaktinjäljitys French: contact tracing (fr) m, recherche des contacts f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Kontaktverfolgung f, Kontaktnachverfolgung (de) f, Kontaktpersonennachverfolgung f Greek: ανίχνευση επαφών f (aníchnefsi epafón) Hebrew: חקירה אפידמיולוגית‎ f (khakirá epidemiyologít) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: kontaktkutatás, kontaktkövetés Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Irish: please add this translation if you can Italian: tracciamento dei contatti m, contact tracing m Japanese: please add this translation if you can Kannada: please add this translation if you can Khmer: ការតាមដានទំនាក់ទំនង (kaa taam daan tumnĕək tumnɔɔng) Korean: 접촉자 추적 (jeopchokja chujeok) Macedonian: следење на изложеност n (sledenje na izloženost) Malay: please add this translation if you can Maltese: please add this translation if you can Maori: whakatewhatewha pānga Norwegian: Bokmål: kontaktsporing m or f, smittesporing (no) m or f Nynorsk: smittesporing f Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: ustalanie kontaktów zakaźnych n Portuguese: rastreamento de contatos m Russian: please add this translation if you can Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: rastreo de contactos m Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: smittspårning (sv) c Tagalog: please add this translation if you can Thai: please add this translation if you can Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: sự theo dõi liên lạc, sự truy tìm tiếp xúc, sự truy vết tiếp xúc, sự theo dõi các tiếp xúc, sự theo dõi các liên hệ Welsh: olrhain cyswllt m

Verb

contact tracing

1. present participle of contact trace

Further reading

• contact tracing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English contact tracing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔn.tɛk ˈtre.ziŋ/

Noun

contact tracing f (invariable)

1. (neologism, epidemiology) contact tracing