Outbreak Investigation

Outbreak Investigation is a systematic epidemiological investigation of an unusual increase in disease cases that identifies the source, causative agent, and transmission mode through hypothesis-driven multidisciplinary analysis to implement control and prevention measures.

23K

Publications

1.4M

Citations

101.1K

Authors

11.8K

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Publications per year

2017–2026

6.7K

Parents

Infectious Disease ControlVeterinary EpidemiologyVeterinary Preventive MedicineVeterinary Public Health

Children

Analytic EpidemiologyCase DefinitionCluster DetectionContact TracingControl Measure ImplementationDescriptive EpidemiologyEnvironmental InvestigationExposure AssessmentField Investigation PlanningFoodborne Outbreak Investigation

Publications

23K

Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China

Wei‐jie Guan, Zhengyi Ni, Yu Hu et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2020 · 31.2K citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine +10

Pathological findings of COVID-19 associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome

Zhe Xu, Lei Shi, Yijin Wang et al. · The Lancet Respiratory Medicine · 2020 · 8.9K citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology +11

Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control

Annals of Internal Medicine · 1992 · 8K citations

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Disease Control, Infectious Diseases +12

Neurologic Manifestations of Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China

Ling Mao, Huijuan Jin, Mengdie Wang et al. · JAMA Neurology · 2020 · 7.4K citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Neurology +6

First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States

Michelle Holshue, Chas DeBolt, Scott Lindquist et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2020 · 6.4K citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology +16

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Authors

101.1K

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Pierre E. Rollin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States
75 publications · 13.5K citations
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Thomas G. Ksiazek
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States
64 publications · 12.3K citations
49
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Didier Raoult
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
78 publications · 5.8K citations
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Marion Koopmans
Erasmus MC, Netherlands
79 publications · 5.7K citations
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David L. Swerdlow
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States
45 publications · 6.6K citations
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Venues

Emerging infectious diseases
EID · 979 publications · 87.5K citations
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New England Journal of Medicine
NEJM · 236 publications · 101.2K citations
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Clinical Infectious Diseases
CID · 413 publications · 38.8K citations
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The Journal of Infectious Diseases
JID · 378 publications · 35.8K citations
109
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The Lancet
332 publications · 43.5K citations
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See also Outbreak Investigation
Core Methods	Contact Tracing Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition Case-control Studies Line Listing Environmental Sampling Metagenomic Sequencing Of Viruses Polymerase Chain Reaction Viral Culture Immunoassays
Response Measures	Contact Tracing Isolation Patient Psychosocial Care Quarantine Vaccination Promotion Campaigns Travel Restriction Ethics Physical Distancing Public Education
Causal Inference	Root Cause Analysis Transmission Tree Reconstruction Markov Chain Monte Carlo Bayesian Inference Susceptible-infected-recovered Models Bayesian Data Augmentation Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
Data Sources	Electronic Health Records Electronic Laboratory Reporting Syndromic Surveillance Reporting Disease Registry Systems Population-based Surveys Disease Surveillance Reporting Form Complaints
Operational Challenges	Data Quality Missing Data Misclassification Adjustment Jurisdictional Data Sharing Dynamic Network Analysis