Abstract: AbstractBackgroundAccurate knowledge of incubation period is important to investigate and to control infectious diseases and their transmission, however statements of incubation period in the literature are often uncited, inconsistent, and/or not evidence based.MethodsIn a systematic review of the literature on five enteric viruses of public health importance, we found 256 articles with incubation period estimates, including 33 with data for pooled analysis.ResultsWe fit a log-normal distribution to pooled data and found the median incubation p...
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Virology
Internal medicine