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Shorter Incubation Period among COVID-19 Cases with the BA.1 Omicron Variant
We aimed to elucidate the range of the incubation period in patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in comparison with the Alpha variant. Contact tracing data from three Japanese public health centers (total residents, 1.06 million) collected following the guidelines of the Infectious...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9140418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35627870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19106330 |
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author | Tanaka, Hideo Ogata, Tsuyoshi Shibata, Toshiyuki Nagai, Hitomi Takahashi, Yuki Kinoshita, Masaru Matsubayashi, Keisuke Hattori, Sanae Taniguchi, Chie |
author_facet | Tanaka, Hideo Ogata, Tsuyoshi Shibata, Toshiyuki Nagai, Hitomi Takahashi, Yuki Kinoshita, Masaru Matsubayashi, Keisuke Hattori, Sanae Taniguchi, Chie |
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description | We aimed to elucidate the range of the incubation period in patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in comparison with the Alpha variant. Contact tracing data from three Japanese public health centers (total residents, 1.06 million) collected following the guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Control Law were reviewed for 1589 PCR-confirmed COVID-19 cases diagnosed in January 2022. We identified 77 eligible symptomatic patients for whom the date and setting of transmission were known, in the absence of any other probable routes of transmission. The observed incubation period was 3.03 ± 1.35 days (mean ± SDM). In the log-normal distribution, 5th, 50th and 95th percentile values were 1.3 days (95% CI: 1.0–1.6), 2.8 days (2.5–3.1) and 5.8 days (4.8–7.5), significantly shorter than among the 51 patients with the Alpha variant diagnosed in April and May in 2021 (4.94 days ± 2.19, 2.1 days (1.5–2.7), 4.5 days (4.0–5.1) and 9.6 days (7.4–13.0), p < 0.001). As this incubation period, mainly of sublineage BA.1, is even shorter than that in the Delta variant, it is thought to partially explain the variant replacement occurring in late 2021 to early 2022 in many countries. |
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spelling | pubmed-91404182022-05-28 Shorter Incubation Period among COVID-19 Cases with the BA.1 Omicron Variant Tanaka, Hideo Ogata, Tsuyoshi Shibata, Toshiyuki Nagai, Hitomi Takahashi, Yuki Kinoshita, Masaru Matsubayashi, Keisuke Hattori, Sanae Taniguchi, Chie Int J Environ Res Public Health Article We aimed to elucidate the range of the incubation period in patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in comparison with the Alpha variant. Contact tracing data from three Japanese public health centers (total residents, 1.06 million) collected following the guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Control Law were reviewed for 1589 PCR-confirmed COVID-19 cases diagnosed in January 2022. We identified 77 eligible symptomatic patients for whom the date and setting of transmission were known, in the absence of any other probable routes of transmission. The observed incubation period was 3.03 ± 1.35 days (mean ± SDM). In the log-normal distribution, 5th, 50th and 95th percentile values were 1.3 days (95% CI: 1.0–1.6), 2.8 days (2.5–3.1) and 5.8 days (4.8–7.5), significantly shorter than among the 51 patients with the Alpha variant diagnosed in April and May in 2021 (4.94 days ± 2.19, 2.1 days (1.5–2.7), 4.5 days (4.0–5.1) and 9.6 days (7.4–13.0), p < 0.001). As this incubation period, mainly of sublineage BA.1, is even shorter than that in the Delta variant, it is thought to partially explain the variant replacement occurring in late 2021 to early 2022 in many countries. MDPI 2022-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9140418/ /pubmed/35627870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19106330 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Tanaka, Hideo Ogata, Tsuyoshi Shibata, Toshiyuki Nagai, Hitomi Takahashi, Yuki Kinoshita, Masaru Matsubayashi, Keisuke Hattori, Sanae Taniguchi, Chie Shorter Incubation Period among COVID-19 Cases with the BA.1 Omicron Variant |
title | Shorter Incubation Period among COVID-19 Cases with the BA.1 Omicron Variant |
title_full | Shorter Incubation Period among COVID-19 Cases with the BA.1 Omicron Variant |
title_fullStr | Shorter Incubation Period among COVID-19 Cases with the BA.1 Omicron Variant |
title_full_unstemmed | Shorter Incubation Period among COVID-19 Cases with the BA.1 Omicron Variant |
title_short | Shorter Incubation Period among COVID-19 Cases with the BA.1 Omicron Variant |
title_sort | shorter incubation period among covid-19 cases with the ba.1 omicron variant |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9140418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35627870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19106330 |
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