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Serial interval of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections.

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The serial interval of COVID-19 is close to or shorter than its median incubation period, indicating that a substantial proportion of secondary transmission may occur prior to illness onset and that calculations made using the SARS serial interval may introduce bias.
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This article is published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases.The article was published on 2020-03-04 and is currently open access. It has received 963 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Serial interval & Credible interval.

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Estimation of reproduction numbers of COVID-19 in typical countries and epidemic trends under different prevention and control scenarios.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors calculated basic reproduction number (R0) and the time-varying estimate of the effective reproductive number of COVID-19 by using the maximum likelihood method and the sequential Bayesian method, respectively.
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Transmission dynamics of monkeypox in the United Kingdom: contact tracing study

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On the relationship between serial interval, infectiousness profile and generation time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the impact of the variance of the generation time distribution on the controllability of an epidemic through strategies based on contact tracing, and show that underestimating this variance is likely to overestimate controLLability.
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Transmission Dynamics and Control of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

TL;DR: It is estimated that a single infectious case of SARS will infect about three secondary cases in a population that has not yet instituted control measures, and public-health efforts to reduce transmission are expected to have a substantial impact on reducing the size of the epidemic.
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Incubation period and other epidemiological characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus infections with right truncation: A statistical analysis of publicly available case data

TL;DR: The incubation period falls within the range of 2–14 days with 95% confidence and has a mean of around 5 days when approximated using the best-fit lognormal distribution and it is recommended that the length of quarantine should be at least 14 days.
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Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable.

TL;DR: It is concluded that severe acute respiratory syndrome and smallpox are easier to control using these simple public health measures and should be a priority during an outbreak of a novel infectious agent.
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