Estimating Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Transmission of the COVID-19 First Few Cases in Selenge Province, Mongolia

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BACKGROUND: Following the first locally transmitted case in Sukhbaatar soum, Selenge Province, we aimed to investigate the ultimate scale of the epidemic in the scenario of uninterrupted transmission.

METHODS: This was a prospective case study following the locally modified WHO FFX cases generic protocol. A rapid response team collected data from November 14 to 29, 2020. We created a stochastic process to draw many transmission chains from this greater distribution to better understand and make inferences regarding the outbreak under investigation.

RESULTS: The majority of the cases involved household transmissions (35, 52.2%), work transmissions (20, 29.9%), index (5, 7.5%), same apartment transmissions (2, 3.0%), school transmissions (2, 3.0%), and random contacts between individuals transmissions (1, 1.5%). The posterior means of the basic reproduction number of both the asymptomatic cases R 0 Asy $$ {R}_0^{Asy} $$ and the presymptomatic cases R 0 Pre $$ {R}_0^{Pre} $$ (1.35 [95% CrI 0.88-1.86] and 1.29 [95% CrI 0.67-2.10], respectively) were lower than that of the symptomatic cases (2.00 [95% Crl 1.38-2.76]).

CONCLUSION: Our study highlights the heterogeneity of COVID-19 transmission across different symptom statuses and underscores the importance of early identification and isolation of symptomatic cases in disease control. Our approach, which combines detailed contact tracing data with advanced statistical methods, can be applied to other infectious diseases, facilitating a more nuanced understanding of disease transmission dynamics.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

Influenza and other respiratory viruses - 18(2024), 4 vom: 28. Apr., Seite e13277

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dambadarjaa, Davaalkham [VerfasserIn]
Mend, Tsogt [VerfasserIn]
Shapiro, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Handcock, Mark S [VerfasserIn]
Mandakh, Undram [VerfasserIn]
Enebish, Temuulen [VerfasserIn]
Le, Linh-Vi [VerfasserIn]
Bandoy, Dj Darwin R [VerfasserIn]
Amarjargal, Ambaselmaa [VerfasserIn]
Altangerel, Bilegt [VerfasserIn]
Chuluunbaatar, Tuvshintur [VerfasserIn]
Guruuchin, Uugantsetseg [VerfasserIn]
Lkhagvajav, Oyuntulkhuur [VerfasserIn]
Enebish, Oyunsuren [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bayesian statistics
COVID‐19*/epidemiology
Coronavirus infections/epidemiology*
Family characteristics
Field epidemiology
Human*
Influenza
Journal Article
Pandemics*
SARS‐CoV‐2

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 29.03.2024

Date Revised 20.04.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/irv.13277

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM37034037X