title: Estimating incubation period with multiple contact days.
abstract: Multiple contacts with the infectious source may cause inconsistencies in determining the incubation period of a patient and hence the calculation of the mean and variance of the incubation period. A method based on probability distribution to deal with the problem is presented and an example is given for illustration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong. WilsonTam@cuhk.edu.hk
authors.forename: Wilson Ws
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Tam
authors.forename: Tze Wai
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Wong
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D016358:Contact Tracing / Q000379:methods*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006723:Hong Kong / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D017758:Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional; D011336:Probability; D045473:Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus / Q000254:growth & development; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission* / Q000821:virology