Multiple Contact Dates and SARS Incubation Periods
Open Access
- 1 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 10 (2), 207-209
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1002.030426
Abstract
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.Keywords
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