The latency time of SARS-CoV- 2 Delta variant in infection- and vaccine-naive individuals from Vietnam

• Published in: BMC infectious diseases Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 515 - 18
• Main Authors: Arntzen, Vera H., Nguyen Duc, Manh, Fiocco, Marta, Truong Thi Thanh, Lan, Nguyen Hoai Thao, Tam, Mai Thanh, Buu, Nguyen, Tu-Anh, Le Thanh Hoang, Nhat, Choisy, Marc, Phung Khanh, Lam, Le Hong, Nga, Geskus, Ronald B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 12.04.2025; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Antigens; Bayesian analysis; Child; Child, Preschool; Contact tracing; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 - transmission; COVID-19 - virology; Data collection; Disease control; Doubly interval censored data; Estimates; Exposure; Female; Generalized gamma distribution; Health risks; Humans; Infections; Infectious diseases; Latency; Latency time; Male; Median (statistics); Medical research; Medicine, Experimental; Middle Aged; Probability distribution functions; Public health; Quarantine; Quarantine length; Risk; SARS-CoV- 2; SARS-CoV-2 - physiology; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; Time Factors; Truncation; Vaccines; Vietnam - epidemiology; Viral diseases; Virus Latency; Young Adult; Vietnam; Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam; SARS-CoV- 2; Latency time; Quarantine length; Doubly interval censored data; Generalized gamma distribution; Truncation

The latency time (from infection to infectiousness) guides the choice of measures required to control an infectious disease. Estimates of the SARS-CoV- 2 latency time are sparse due to lack of appropriate and representative data. Infection time is rarely known exactly and exposure information may be...