TY - JOUR
T1 - Lessons from managing a campus mumps outbreak using test, trace, and isolate efforts
AU - Bharti, Nita
AU - Exten, Cara
AU - Fulton, Valerie
AU - Oliver-Veronesi, Robin
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: NB acknowledges funding from the NSF (CNH grant: DEB-1716698), Penn State University's Huck Institutes of the Life Science and the Institute for Computation and Data Sciences. CE's effort was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant KL2 TR002015 and Grant UL1 TR002014. The funders had no role in the study.
Funding Information:
Funding: NB acknowledges funding from the NSF (CNH grant: DEB-1716698 ), Penn State University's Huck Institutes of the Life Science and the Institute for Computation and Data Sciences. CE's effort was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences , Grant KL2 TR002015 and Grant UL1 TR002014 . The funders had no role in the study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - In 2017, Penn State University's campus experienced a mumps outbreak that coincided with unrelated restrictions on social gatherings. University Health Services implemented testing, contact tracing, and quarantine and isolation protocols. Approximately half of the supplied contact tracing information was usable, ∼70% of identified contacts were reached, and <50% of those contacted complied with quarantine protocol. Students with confirmed mumps reported ∼7.4 (1-35) contacts on average. Findings from this outbreak can inform future outbreak management on college campuses, including COVID-19, by estimating average contacts per case, planning capacity for testing and quarantine/isolation, and strategically increasing compliance with suggested interventions.
AB - In 2017, Penn State University's campus experienced a mumps outbreak that coincided with unrelated restrictions on social gatherings. University Health Services implemented testing, contact tracing, and quarantine and isolation protocols. Approximately half of the supplied contact tracing information was usable, ∼70% of identified contacts were reached, and <50% of those contacted complied with quarantine protocol. Students with confirmed mumps reported ∼7.4 (1-35) contacts on average. Findings from this outbreak can inform future outbreak management on college campuses, including COVID-19, by estimating average contacts per case, planning capacity for testing and quarantine/isolation, and strategically increasing compliance with suggested interventions.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.11.008
DO - 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.11.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 33186679
AN - SCOPUS:85096550030
SN - 0196-6553
VL - 49
SP - 849
EP - 851
JO - American journal of infection control
JF - American journal of infection control
IS - 6
ER -