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SUBMITTER: Eikmeier D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9134522 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eikmeier D D Medus C C Smith K K
Epidemiology and infection 20180207 4
Incubation period for non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) infections is generally reported as 6-72 h despite numerous reports of foodborne NTS outbreaks with median incubation periods >3 days. We summarised 16 years of Minnesota foodborne NTS outbreaks to better estimate the expected range of incubation periods for NTS infections. Of the 1517 NTS outbreak cases, 725 had enough data to calculate a precise incubation period. The median incubation period was 45 h; 77 (11%) cases had incubations ⩽12 h an ...[more]