Multiple contact dates and SARS incubation periods.
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.
Meltzer
Martin I
MI
Office of Surveillance, National Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. Mmeltzer@cdc.gov
D016358:Contact Tracing; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000635:transmission; D013997:Time Factors