Letter to the editor: Added value of backward contact tracing for COVID-19

Graham Fraser; Gareth Hughes; Simon Packer; Obaghe Edeghere; Isabel Oliver

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.4.2400003

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Letter to the editor: Added value of backward contact tracing for COVID-19
Graham Fraser¹ , Gareth Hughes¹ , Simon Packer¹ , Obaghe Edeghere¹ , Isabel Oliver¹
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Affiliations: ¹ United Kingdom Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom

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Citation style for this article: Fraser Graham, Hughes Gareth, Packer Simon, Edeghere Obaghe, Oliver Isabel. Letter to the editor: Added value of backward contact tracing for COVID-19. Euro Surveill. 2024;29(4):pii=2400003. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.4.2400003 Received: 01 Jan 2024; Accepted: 03 Jan 2024

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