Table 3.

Time from exposure to onset (i.e., incubation period) and onset to hospitalization for different pathogens

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.05564.012

Pathogen	Time from	Mean (days)	Reference
Influenza A/H7N9	Exposure-to-onset	4.3	(Cowling et al., 2013)
	Onset-to-hospitalization	5	(Gao et al., 2013; Sun et al., 2014)
Influenza A/H1N1	Exposure-to-onset	4.3	(Tuite et al., 2010)
	Exposure-to-onset	2.05	(Ghani et al., 2009)
	Onset-to-recovery	7	(Tuite et al., 2010)
SARS-CoV	Exposure-to-onset	6.4	(Donnelly et al., 2003)
	Onset-to-hospitalization	4.85	(Donnelly et al., 2003)
MERS-CoV	Exposure-to-onset	5.2	(Assiri et al., 2013)
	Exposure-to-onset	5.5	(Cauchemez et al., 2014)
	Onset-to-hospitalization	5	(Assiri et al., 2013)
Ebola	Exposure-to-onset	9.1	(WHO Ebola Response Team, 2014)
	Onset-to-hospitalization	5	(WHO Ebola Response Team, 2014)
Marburg	Exposure-to-onset	6.8	(Martini, 1973)
	Onset-to-hospitalization	5*

^*As there was limited data for onset-to-hospitalization for Marburg, we assumed the same value as for Ebola.