Incubation Periods of Mosquito-Borne Viral Infections: A Systematic Review
- 7 May 2014
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 90 (5), 882-891
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.13-0403
Abstract
Mosquito-borne viruses are a major public health threat, but their incubation periods are typically uncited, non-specific, and not based on data. We systematically review the published literature on six mosquito-borne viruses selected for their public health importance: chikungunya, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, Rift Valley fever, West Nile, and yellow fever viruses. For each, we identify the literature's consensus on the incubation period, evaluate the evidence for this consensus, and provide detailed estimates of the incubation period and distribution based on published experimental and observational data. We abstract original data as doubly interval-censored observations. Assuming a log-normal distribution, we estimate the median incubation period, dispersion, 25th and 75th percentiles by maximum likelihood. We include bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals for each estimate. For West Nile and yellow fever viruses, we also estimate the 5th and 95th percentiles of their incubation periods.Keywords
This publication has 88 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Incubation Periods of Dengue VirusesPLOS ONE, 2012
- Visualizing Clinical Evidence: Citation Networks for the Incubation Periods of Respiratory Viral InfectionsPLOS ONE, 2011
- Consequences of the Expanding Global Distribution of Aedes albopictus for Dengue Virus TransmissionPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010
- Incubation periods of acute respiratory viral infections: a systematic reviewThe Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2009
- Multidisciplinary Prospective Study of Mother-to-Child Chikungunya Virus Infections on the Island of La RéunionPLoS Medicine, 2008
- A Single Mutation in Chikungunya Virus Affects Vector Specificity and Epidemic PotentialPLoS Pathogens, 2007
- Chikungunya fever is transmitted locally in Europe for first timeBMJ, 2007
- Imported Chikungunya Infection, ItalyEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
- Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllableProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004
- An epidemic of virus disease in Southern Province, Tanganyika territory, in 1952–1953Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1955