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incubation period

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incubation period

In infectious disease, the time-lag between catching the pathogen and developing symptoms of the condition.



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This is a disease with a very long incubation period during which people infected with vCJD appear completely normal," Rohwer says.
Emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in a novel environment provides clues to its incubation period.
The exact incubation period and period of communicability, for any newly emerging influenza virus, will be unknown until there have been opportunities to study the virus characteristics.
 
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