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