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Beth M Tuschhoff¹, David A Kennedy¹

¹Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

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Detecting differences in host susceptibility is key to understanding epidemics. This new method uses contact tracing data to identify and measure susceptibility heterogeneity early in outbreaks, improving disease modeling and public health responses.

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Public Health

Background:

Host susceptibility heterogeneity significantly impacts disease dynamics and public health interventions.
Detecting and measuring this heterogeneity early in an epidemic is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel method for detecting and estimating host susceptibility heterogeneity using contact tracing data.
To enable early quantification of heterogeneity's effects on disease dynamics.

Main Methods:

Simulated contact tracing data from artificial populations with known susceptibility heterogeneity.
Analysis of simulated data to determine detection power and estimation accuracy.
Leveraging the principle that uninfected individuals in contact networks are likely less susceptible.

Main Results:

The method can detect and estimate heterogeneity in susceptibility using contact tracing data alone.
Detection power increases with larger sample sizes and greater heterogeneity.
Accurate estimation of heterogeneity and disease dynamics is achievable.

Conclusions:

Contact tracing data are sufficient for quantifying susceptibility heterogeneity.
This approach can be applied to ongoing and historical epidemic data.
Early detection of heterogeneity improves epidemic modeling and response strategies.