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A patient under investigation (or a person under investigation) refers to a person who had been in close contact with a person with confirmed infection or/and may have been to place where there is an outbreak or superspreading event.[1][2][3] This person exhibits the symptoms of the disease and is required to be tested, and undergo a quarantine or isolation while waiting for the laboratory results.[4][5][6] It is a term used by health care workers in classifying patients during evaluation and testing in contact tracing in times of infectious disease outbreaks.[7][8]

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• Disease surveillance – Monitoring spread of disease to establish patterns of progression
• Infection control – Medical discipline for preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infectionPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Pandemic prevention – Organization and management of preventive measures against pandemics
• Social distancing – Infection control technique by keeping a distance from each other
• Super-spreader – Event spreading an infectious diseasePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Transmission – Passing of a pathogen from one organism to anotherPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Triage – Emergency medical process

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1. ^ "CDC Broadens 'Person Under Investigation' Definition for COVID-19".
2. ^ "Guidelines for Evaluating and Testing for COVID-19 Coronavirus (CDC)". MedicineNet. 26 March 2020.
3. ^ "Pimentel to DOJ: I was not a PUI when I went to Makati Med". Rappler. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
4. ^ Modesto, Catherine (20 March 2020). "How COVID-19 testing is conducted in PH". CNN Philippines. Archived from the original on 3 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
5. ^ "Center for Disease Control Patient Under Investigation Definition". Military Health System. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
6. ^ Salameda, Austin (24 March 2020). "The CoviD 19 Saga: PUM vs PUI, what's in a Word?". Digital News Exchange.
7. ^ "Evaluating and Testing Persons for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
8. ^ "Interim Guidance for Healthcare Professionals". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2 August 2019.

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• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's When Caring for Patients Under Investigation (PUIs) or Patients with Confirmed Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Human Infection with 2019 Novel Coronavirus Person Under Investigation (PUI) and Case Report Form
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Evaluating and Testing Persons for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• Illinois Department of Public Health's Case Definitions for MERS-CoV Patient Under Investigation (PUI)
• Eurosurveillance's Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020

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