case-to-infection proportion

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscase-to-infection ratio

   Broaderproportion

Questions about case-to-infection proportion

What does case-to-infection proportion mean?

case-to-infection proportion means "the number of cases of a disease divided by the number of infections with the agent that causes the disease".

What is another word for case-to-infection proportion?

Close synonyms include case-to-infection ratio. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is case-to-infection proportion a common word?

case-to-infection proportion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.