Open AccessShorter serial intervals and incubation periods in SARS-CoV-2 variants than the SARS-CoV-2 ancestral strain
Author(s) -
Zhanwei Du,
Caifen Liu,
Lin Wang,
Yuan Bai,
Eric H. Y. Lau,
Peng Wu,
Benjamin J. Cowling
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of travel medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.985
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1708-8305
pISSN - 1195-1982
DOI - 10.1093/jtm/taac052
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , incubation , incubation period , confidence interval , strain (injury) , virology , outbreak , biology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , biochemistry
The Delta and Omicron variants have the pooled estimates of serial interval as 3.4 days (95% CI: 3.0, 3.7) and 3.1 days (95% CI: 2.9, 3.2), respectively; incubation periods as 4.8 days (95% CI: 3.9, 5.6) and 3.6 days (95% CI: 2.3, 4.9), respectively.
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