Incubation period
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Incubation period is the time elapsed between exposure to a pathogenic organism and when symptoms and signs are first apparent. The period may be as short as minutes, to as long as thirty years in the case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
A person may be a carrier of a disease, such as Streptococcus in the throat without exhibiting any symptoms.
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