English Explanatory Dictionary

serial interval

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In 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).

Word forms

serial interval serial intervals
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