Jantien A. Backer

TL;DR: Using the travel history and symptom onset of 88 confirmed cases that were detected outside Wuhan in the early outbreak phase, the mean incubation period is estimated to be 6.4 days, which should help inform 2019-nCoV case definitions and appropriate quarantine durations.

TL;DR: The monkeypox incubation period was estimated, using reported exposure and symptom-onset times for 18 cases detected and confirmed in the Netherlands up to 31 May 2022, underpinning the current recommendation to monitor or isolate/quarantine case contacts for 21 days.

TL;DR: This work has developed a novel approach to reconstruct transmission trees with sequence data that combines elementary models for transmission, case observation, within-host pathogen dynamics, and mutation, under the assumption that the outbreak is over and all cases have been observed.

TL;DR: The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has a growth advantage over the Delta variant because of higher transmissibility, immune evasion or shorter serial interval, and within households, the mean serial interval for SGTF cases was 0.2–0.6 days shorter than for non-SGTF cases.

TL;DR: Using the travel history and symptom onset of 88 confirmed cases that were detected outside Wuhan, the mean incubation period of a novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV is estimated to be 6.4 days, ranging from 2.1 to 11.1 days, to inform case definitions for 2019- nCoV and appropriate durations for quarantine.