Incubation period of disease
|
Disease |
Causative
Agent |
Incubation
period |
|
Chicken pox |
Varicella Human (alpha) herpes virus 3 |
14-16 days |
|
Measles (Rubeola) |
RNA Paramyxovirus |
10-14 days |
|
Rubella (German measles) |
RNA Togavirus |
14-21 days |
|
Mumps (Rubula) |
RNA Myxovirus |
14-21 days |
|
Influenza |
Orthomyxovirus |
18-72 hours |
|
Diphtheria |
Corynebacterium diphtheriae |
2-6 days |
|
Pertusis (Whooping cough) |
Bordetella pertusis |
7-14 days |
|
Tetanus |
Clostridium Tetani |
6-10 days |
|
Meningococcal Meningitis |
Neisseria Meningitidis |
3-4 days |
|
SARS |
Corona Virus |
3-5 days |
|
Tuberculosis |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
Weeks – Years (Min. 3-6 wks) |
|
Poliomyelitis |
Poliovirus |
7-14 days |
|
Hepatitis A |
Enterovirus 72 (Picornavirus) |
15-45 days |
|
Hepatitis B |
Hepadna Virus |
45-180 days |
|
Hepatitis C |
Hepacivirus |
30-120 days |
|
Cholera |
Vibrio cholerae |
1-2 days |
|
Typhoid fever |
Salmonella typhi |
10-14 days |
|
Staphylococcal food poisoning |
Staphylococcus aureus |
1-6 hours |
|
Ascariasis |
Ascaris lumbricoides |
2 months |
|
Ancylostomiasis (Hookworm) |
A. duodenale |
5 wks -9 months |
|
Malaria |
Plasmodium vivax |
8-17 days |
|
Plasmodium falciparum |
9-14 days |
|
|
Plasmodium malariae |
18-40 days |
|
|
Plasmodium ovale |
16-18 days |
|
|
Lymphatic filariasis |
Wuchereria bancrofti |
8-16 months |
|
Rabies |
Lyssavirus type 1 (Rhabdovirus) |
3-8 weeks |
|
Yellow fever |
Flavivirus fibricus |
2-6 days |
|
Japanese encephalitis |
Group B arbovirus (flavivirus) |
5-15 days |
|
KFD |
Arbovirus (flavivirus) |
3-8 days |
|
Chikungunya fever |
Chikungunya virus (Arbovirus A) |
4-7 days |
|
Leptospirosis |
Leptospira interrogans |
4-20 days |
|
Bubonic plague |
Yersinia pestis |
2-7 days |
|
Pneumonic plague |
1-3 days |
|
|
Septicemic plague |
2-7 days |
|
|
Scrub typhus |
Rickettsia tsusugamushi |
10-12 days |
|
Q fever |
Coxiella Burnetti |
2-3 weeks |
|
Taeniasis (Tape worm) |
T. Solium / T. Sagineta |
8-14 weeks |
|
Leishminiasis (Kala Azar) |
L. Donovani |
1-4 months |
|
Trachoma |
Chlamydia trachomatis |
5-12 days |
|
Yaws |
Treponema pertenue |
3-5 weeks |
|
HIV (AIDS) |
HIV/ HTLV-3 |
Months to 10 Years |
|
Swine flu |
H1N1- Type A influenza |
1-4 days |
|
Ebola disease |
Ebola virus |
2-21 days |
|
Anthrax |
Bacillus anthracis |
1-7 days |
|
Brucellosis |
Brucella Melitensis |
5-60 days |
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