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cord-315440-he7sm7nj	Wassie, Gizachew Tadesse	Incubation period of SARS-CoV-2: A systematic review and meta-analysis	2020-10-11		.txt	text/plain	3756	232	51	Since there is no effective COVID-19 vaccine available yet, it is increasingly important to understand the average incubation period of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to design appropriate preventive and control strategies. Therefore, this systematic review and meta-analysis was designed to estimate the pooled average incubation period of SARS-CoV-2. We included peer-reviewed research studies written in the English language on the incubation period of SARS-CoV-2 using pre-defined quality and inclusion criteria. With regard to studies published in peer-reviewed journals or found in grey literature, all observational study designs (i.e. cross-sectional, case-control, and cohort), studies involving humans, and studies reporting the incubation period of SARS-CoV-2 were eligible for inclusion in this systematic review and meta-analysis. Studies with no accessible full text after using all the PRISMA-P search strategies and studies not reporting a specific incubation period for SARS-CoV-2 were excluded from this systematic review and meta-analysis.	./cache/cord-315440-he7sm7nj.txt	./txt/cord-315440-he7sm7nj.txt