Incubation period of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019- nCoV) infections among travellers from Wuhan, China, 20 28 January 2020

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2020, Pages

  Backer, Jantien A ^a   Klinkenberg, Don ^a   Wallinga, Jacco ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; QUARANTINE; REVIEW; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SARS-RELATED CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAVEL; BETACORONAVIRUS; PATHOGENICITY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

COVID-19; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE INCUBATION PERIOD; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL;

EID: 85079336160     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.5.2000062     Document Type: Review

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