title: Multiple contact dates and SARS incubation periods.
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.
authors.affiliation: Office of Surveillance, National Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. Mmeltzer@cdc.gov
authors.forename: Martin I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Meltzer
mesh_terms: 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