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Latent period (epidemiology)
Time interval between infection by a pathogen and the individual becoming infectious / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In epidemiology, particularly in the discussion of infectious disease dynamics (modeling), the latent period (also known as the latency period or the pre-infectious period) is the time interval between when an individual or host is infected by a pathogen and when that individual becomes infectious, i.e. capable of transmitting pathogens to other susceptible individuals.[1][2][3]
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