Prepatent period

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005157",
  "term": "Prepatent period",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Period between infection with a parasite and the production of eggs by a female; equivalent to the incubation period of microbial infections, but biologically different because the parasite is going through developmental stages in the host.",
  "synonyms": [
    "pre-patent period"
  ],
  "subject": "Research, Technology, Methods",
  "see_also": [
    "disease course",
    "parasitoses",
    "latent period",
    "infectious disease incubation period"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "período prepatente"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/prepatent-period/"
}