Construction of epidemic
curves can refine information about the possible source(s) of the outbreak,
enabling development of hypothesises for further environmental and analytical
investigation:
These include:
- Refining
the estimate of the point in time of occurrence of a focal point source
- Identifying
multiple possible sources of exposure
- Distinguishing
primary and secondary cases
- Unmasking
outbreak source through epidemic curve segmentation
- (there could be other examples/topics
here)
