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SUBMITTER: Sturniolo S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7932151 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PLoS computational biology 20210304 3
Existing compartmental mathematical modelling methods for epidemics, such as SEIR models, cannot accurately represent effects of contact tracing. This makes them inappropriate for evaluating testing and contact tracing strategies to contain an outbreak. An alternative used in practice is the application of agent- or individual-based models (ABM). However ABMs are complex, less well-understood and much more computationally expensive. This paper presents a new method for accurately including the e ...[more]