Serial interval

Noun

Definitions

1.NounIn epidemiology of communicable (infectious) diseases, the time period between the onset of symptoms with the primary patient and the onset of symptoms with the secondary patient (infected by primary).

Synonyms

seroincidence secondary infection incidence coprimary community spread passage subinfection index patient autoinoculation social distance infectivity transmission

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