INCUBATION PERIOD Flashcards
(42 cards)
1
Q
Chicken pox
A
14 – 16 days
2
Q
Measles (Rubeonella)
A
10 – 14 days
3
Q
Rubella (German Measles)
A
14 – 21 days
4
Q
Mumps
A
14 – 21 days
5
Q
INFLUENZA
A
18-72 HRS
6
Q
Pertussis (Whooping cough)
A
7 – 14 days
7
Q
Meningococcal meningitis
A
3 – 4 days
8
Q
SARS
A
3 – 5 days
9
Q
Tuberculosis
A
Weeks – years
10
Q
Poliomyelitis
A
7 – 14 days
11
Q
Hepatitis A
A
15 – 45 days
12
Q
Hepatitis B
A
45 – 180 days
13
Q
Hepatitis C
A
30 – 120 days
14
Q
Cholera
A
1 – 2 days
15
Q
Typhoid fever
A
10 – 14 days
16
Q
Staphylococcal food poisoning
A
1 – 6 hours
17
Q
Ascariasis
A
2 months
18
Q
Ancylostomiasis (Hookworm)
A
5 weeks – 9 months
19
Q
Malaria
A
Plasmodium vivax 8 – 17 days
Plasmodium falciparum 9 – 14 days
Plasmodium malariae 18 – 40 days
Plasmodium ovale 16 – 18 days
20
Q
Filariasis
Wuchereria bancrofti
A
8 – 16 months
21
Q
Rabies
A
3 – 8 weeks
22
Q
Yellow fever
A
2 – 6 days
23
Q
Japanese encephalitis
A
5 – 15 days
24
Q
KFD
A
3 – 8 days
25
Chikungunya fever
4 – 7 days
26
Leptospirosis
4 – 20 days
27
Bubonic plague
Yersinia pestis
2 – 7 days
28
Pneumonic plague
1 – 3 days
29
Septicemic plague
2 – 7 days
30
Scrub typhus
Rickettsia tsutsugamushi
10 – 12 days
31
Q fever
Coxiella burnetti
2 – 3 weeks
32
Taeniasis (Tapeworms)
T. solium,
T. saginata
8 – 14 weeks
33
Kala azar
L. donovani
1 – 4 months
34
Trachoma
| Chlamydia trachomatis
5 – 12 days
35
Tetanus
Clostridium tetani
6 – 10 days
36
Yaws
| Treponema pertenue
3 – 5 weeks
37
HIV/ AIDS
Months – 10 years
38
Swine Flu
1–4 days
39
MERS Betacoronavirus
12 days
40
Ebola disease
| Ebolavirus
2-21 days
41
Anthrax
Bacillus anthracis
1-7 days
42
Brucellosis
Brucella melitensis
5-60 days
