Association between Severity of MERS-CoV Infection and Incubation Period

Abstract

We analyzed data for 170 patients in South Korea who had laboratory-confirmed infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. A longer incubation period was associated with a reduction in the risk for death (adjusted odds ratio/1-day increase in incubation period 0.83, 95% credibility interval 0.68–1.03).

Keywords

• Middle East respiratory syndrome
• Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
• MERS-CoV
• coronavirus
• viruses
• incubation period