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serial interval: a standalone construct

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serialinterval1 CONSTRUCTSerial intervalFINE · ONSET TO ONSET

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Epidemiology

Time from one case's onset to the next it infects

The serial interval is the time between the onset of symptoms in one case and the onset of symptoms in a second case that the first directly infected. It paces how fast an epidemic turns over through successive generations of transmission and, together with the growth rate, it is used to estimate the reproduction number. It is closely related to but distinct from the generation interval, which times infection events rather than symptom onsets. Fine's 2003 The interval between successive cases of an infectious disease clarified these intervals and their uses. The referent is a timing distribution for transmission between linked cases.[1]

Unit
Time (usually days) between symptom onset in successive linked cases
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Estimated from the onset dates of epidemiologically linked infector–infectee pairs in contact-tracing data

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References

  1. Fine, P. E. M. (2003). The interval between successive cases of an infectious disease. American Journal of Epidemiology, 158(11), 1039–1047. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwg251

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