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extrinsic incubation period

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extrinsic incubation period
n.
The interval between the acquisition of an infectious agent by a vector and the vector's ability to transmit the agent to other susceptible vertebrate hosts.

extrinsic
of external origin.

extrinsic allergic alveolitis
see hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
extrinsic factor
see extrinsic factor.
extrinsic incubation period
the period between infection of the arthropod insect vector and the vector's ability to infect the next vertebrate host.
extrinsic pathway
see coagulation pathways.
extrinsic protein
see membrane proteins.


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In 2004, unusually cool environmental temperatures prolonged vector larval development, adult emergence, and the arboviral extrinsic incubation period.
1994), and abundance of mosquitoes and their extrinsic incubation period (Hardy 1988; Kramer et al.
Such predictions often refer to vectorial capacity, a simple model that incorporates the population density, biting frequency, and daily survival probability of the vector, and the extrinsic incubation period of the pathogen (15,16).
 
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