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Serial interval is?

Time interval between invasion of infection and appearance of first sign or symptom

Time between onset of primary case and secondary case

Interval of time between receipt of infection by a host and maximum inefectivity

Time in which infectious agent is transferred from one host to another

High-Yield Explanation

SERIAL INTERVAL is the gap in time between the onset of the primary case and the secondary case.it helps to get a distribution of secondary cases from which we can guess the incubation period of diseasered:park's textbook of preventive and social medicine,22 nd edition,pg no 96

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