

@article {9989,
	title = {{Incubation periods of viral gastroenteritis: a systematic review.}},
	journal = {BMC Infectious Diseases},
	volume = {13},
	year = {2013},
	month = {jan},
	pages = {446},
	abstract = {<p>BACKGROUND: Accurate knowledge of incubation period is important to investigate and to control infectious diseases and their transmission, however statements of incubation period in the literature are often uncited, inconsistent, and/or not evidence based. METHODS: In a systematic review of the literature on five enteric viruses of public health importance, we found 256 articles with incubation period estimates, including 33 with data for pooled analysis. RESULTS: We fit a log-normal distribution to pooled data and found the median incubation period to be 4.5 days (95{\%} CI 3.9-5.2 days) for astrovirus, 1.2 days (95{\%} CI 1.1-1.2 days) for norovirus genogroups I and II, 1.7 days (95{\%} CI 1.5-1.8 days) for sapovirus, and 2.0 days (95{\%} CI 1.4-2.4 days) for rotavirus. CONCLUSIONS: Our estimates combine published data and provide sufficient quantitative detail to allow for these estimates to be used in a wide range of clinical and modeling applications. This can translate into improved prevention and control efforts in settings with transmission or the risk of transmission.</p>
},
	issn = {1471-2334},
	doi = {10.1186/1471-2334-13-446},
	url = {http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=3849296{\&}tool=pmcentrez{\&}rendertype=abstract},
	author = {Lee, Rachel M and Lessler, Justin and Lee, Rose A and Rudolph, Kara E and Reich, Nicholas G and Perl, Trish M and Cummings, Derek A T}
}
