serial interval

English

Noun

serial interval (plural serial intervals)

1. (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

• Daryl J. Daley. Epidemic Modelling: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 17. [1]
• Transmission Dynamics and Control of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome