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incubation period
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Noun1.incubation period - the period between infection and the appearance of symptoms of the disease
period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
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Spanish incubation period nperíodo de incubación
French incubation period npériode f d'incubation
German incubation period incubate nInkubationszeit f
Italian incubation period n(periodo di) incubazione f

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The proportions of infected persons who would die with disease symptoms are 79% and 37% for the incubation periods of 16 and 50 years, respectively.
This makes it difficult to be very specific or clear-cut about a case definition, incubation periods or other characteristics.
The chapter on communicable diseases contains information about the incubation periods of common communicable diseases, which may be useful in making administrative decisions in clinical settings.
 
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