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CASE-TO-INFECTION PROPORTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does case-to-infection proportion mean? 

CASE-TO-INFECTION PROPORTION (noun)
  The noun CASE-TO-INFECTION PROPORTION has 1 sense:

1. the number of cases of a disease divided by the number of infections with the agent that causes the diseaseplay

  Familiarity information: CASE-TO-INFECTION PROPORTION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CASE-TO-INFECTION PROPORTION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The number of cases of a disease divided by the number of infections with the agent that causes the disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

case-to-infection proportion; case-to-infection ratio

Hypernyms ("case-to-infection proportion" is a kind of...):

proportion (the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole)


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