The serial interval in the epidemiology of communicable (infectious) diseases is the time between successive cases in a chain of transmission. The serial interval is generally estimated from the interval between clinical onsets (if observable), in which case it is the 'clinical onset serial interval'.
The serial interval in the epidemiology of communicable (infectious) diseases is the time between successive cases in a chain of transmission. The serial interval is generally estimated from the interval between clinical onsets (if observable), in which case it is the 'clinical onset serial interval'.
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