contact tracing

See also: contact-tracing

English

Alternative forms

• contact-tracing

Pronunciation

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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^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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^[3]:

     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

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 接觸者追蹤／接触者追踪 (zh) (jiēchùzhě zhuīzōng)

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• Dutch: bron- en contactonderzoek n
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• Finnish: kontaktinjäljitys
• French: contact tracing (fr) m, recherche des contacts f
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• German: Kontaktverfolgung f, Kontaktnachverfolgung (de) f, Kontaktpersonennachverfolgung f
• Greek: ανίχνευση επαφών f (aníchnefsi epafón)
• Hebrew: חקירה אפידמיולוגית f (khakirá epidemiyologít)
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• Hungarian: kontaktkutatás, kontaktkövetés
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• Irish: rianú teagmhálacha m
• Italian: tracciamento dei contatti m, contact tracing m, rintracciamento dei contatti m
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• Khmer: ការតាមដានទំនាក់ទំនង (kaa taam daan tumnĕək tumnɔɔng)
• Korean: 접촉자 추적 (jeopchokja chujeok)
• Macedonian: следење на изложеност n (sledenje na izloženost)
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• Maori: whakatewhatewha pānga
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  Bokmål: kontaktsporing m or f, smittesporing (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: smittesporing f

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• Polish: ustalanie kontaktów zakaźnych n
• Portuguese: rastreamento de contatos m
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• Spanish: rastreo de contactos m
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• Swedish: smittspårning (sv) c
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• 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 and gerund of contact trace

Further reading

• contact tracing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

   Synonym: rintracciamento di contatti