Which of the folowing is used to assess the communicability of a disease following the exposure to the primary case?
Secondary attack rate is defined as the number of the exposed persons developing the disease within the range of the incubation period, following exposure to the primary cause. A measure of infectivity is the secondary attack rate. It reflects the degree of contagiousness of a communicable disease, and has been used in assessment of the effectiveness of control measures.
Secondary attack rate
Generation time
Serial interval
Incubation period