TY - JOUR AU - Dixon, Meredith AU - Taylor, Melanie AU - Dee, Jacob AU - Hakim, Avi AU - Cantey, Paul AU - Lim, Travis AU - Bah, Hawa AU - Camara, Sékou Mohamed AU - Ndongmo, Clement AU - Togba, Mory AU - Touré, Leonie Yvonne AU - Bilivogui, Pepe AU - Sylla, Mohammed AU - Kinzer, Michael AU - Coronado, Fátima AU - Tongren, Jon Eric AU - Swaminathan, Mahesh AU - Mandigny, Lise AU - Diallo, Boubacar AU - Seyler, Thomas AU - Rondy, Marc AU - Rodier, Guénaël AU - Perea, William AU - Dahl, Benjamin T1 - Contact Tracing Activities during the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Kindia and Faranah, Guinea, 2014 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2015 VL - 21 IS - 11 SP - 2022 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The largest recorded Ebola virus disease epidemic began in March 2014; as of July 2015, it continued in 3 principally affected countries: Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Control efforts include contact tracing to expedite identification of the virus in suspect case-patients. We examined contact tracing activities during September 20–December 31, 2014, in 2 prefectures of Guinea using national and local data about case-patients and their contacts. Results show less than one third of case-patients (28.3% and 31.1%) were registered as contacts before case identification; approximately two thirds (61.1% and 67.7%) had no registered contacts. Time to isolation of suspected case-patients was not immediate (median 5 and 3 days for Kindia and Faranah, respectively), and secondary attack rates varied by relationships of persons who had contact with the source case-patient and the type of case-patient to which a contact was exposed. More complete contact tracing efforts are needed to augment control of this epidemic. KW - Ebola KW - viruses KW - contact tracing KW - epidemic control KW - Guinea KW - Ebola virus disease DO - 10.3201/eid2111.150684 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/11/15-0684_article ER - End of Reference