Infectious Disease Incubation Period
"Infectious Disease Incubation Period" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The amount time between exposure to an infectious agent and becoming symptomatic.
| Descriptor ID |
D055256
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N06.850.310.405
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Infectious Disease Incubation Period" by people in Profiles.
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Incubation periods of enteric illnesses in foodborne outbreaks, United States, 1998-2013. Epidemiol Infect. 2019 10 07; 147:e285.