serial interval
English
editNoun
editserial interval (plural serial intervals)
- (pathology) 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).
References
edit- Daryl J. Daley. Epidemic Modelling: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 17. [1]
- Transmission Dynamics and Control of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome