Concept information
Preferred term
latency and incubation periods
Definition
- The starting point of a communicable disease is the exposure of the host to the infectious agent. When communicable diseases are considered as a whole, two different processes have to be distinguished in their evolution over time: infectiveness and disease. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Latency and Incubation Periods]
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-XSKVKJWG-R
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