Multiple Contact Dates and SARS Incubation Periods

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Meltzer, Martin I.
• Description:
  Many severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients have multiple possible incubation periods due to multiple contact dates. Multiple contact dates cannot be used in standard statistical analytic techniques, however. I present a simple spreadsheet-based method that uses multiple contact dates to calculate the possible incubation periods of SARS.
• Subjects:
  Contact Tracing Disease Outbreaks Dispatch Humans Models, Statistical Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Time Factors
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 10(2):207-209.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  10
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5cb6743ac0a4e46521958c52cfacd01bc41ab5752c85cd60d8035a2dbd32578b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/7720/cdc_7720_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 93.85 KB ]