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**Health & Life Sciences Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

A field epidemiology technique for identifying, listing, notifying and monitoring animals and people who have been exposed to, or had contact with, a confirmed case so that transmission chains can be interrupted by isolation, treatment, vaccination, or monitoring.