Diseases and Incubation Period

Some of the common diseases, there causative organism and their incubation period.

S.No.	Disease	Causative organism	Incubation period
1	Ancylostomiasis (Hookworm)	A. duodenale	5 weeks-9 months
2	Anthrax	Bacillus anthracis	1-7 days
3	Ascariasis	Ascaris lumbricoides	2 months
4	Brucellosis	Brucella melitenis	5-60 day
5	Bubonic plague	Yersinia pestis	2-7 days
6	Chicken pox	Human (alpha) herpes virus 3	14-16 days
7	Chikungunya fever	Chikungunyavirus (Arbovirus A)	4-7 days
8	Cholera	Vibrio cholera	1-2 days
9	Crimean Congo Fever	Nairovirus (Bunyavirus)	1-9 days
10	Diptheria	Corynebacteruim diptheriae	2-6 days
11	Ebola disease	Ebolavirus	2-21 days
12	H7N9 Influenza	H7N9 type A Influenza	1-10days (3.3days)
13	Hepatitis A	Enterovirus 72 (Picornavirus)	15-45 days
14	Hepatitis B	Hepadna virus	45-180 days
15	Hepatitis C	Hepacivirus	30-120 days
16	HIV/AIDS	HIV/HTLV-III/LAV	months-10 years
17	Influenza	Orthomyxovirus	18-72 days
18	Japanese encephalitis	Flavivirus(Group B Arbovirus)	5-15 days
19	KFD	Arbovirus (Flavivirus)	3-8 days
20	Leishmaniasis (Kala azar)	L. donovani	1-4 months
21	Leptospirosis	Leptospira interrogans	4-20 days
22	Lymphatic filariasis	Wuchereria bancrofti	8-16 days
23	Malaria	Plasmodium vivax	8-14 days
24	Malaria	Plasmodium falciparum	9-14 days
25	Malaria	Palsmodium malariae	18-40 days
26	Malaria	Plasmodium ovale	16-18 days
27	Measles (Rubeonella)	RNA paramyxovirus	10-14 days
28	Meningococcal meningitis	Neisseria meningitis	3-4 days
29	MERS	Betacocoronavirus	12 days
30	Mumps	RNA Myxovirus	14-21 days
31	Pertusis (Whoping cough)	Bordetella pertusis	7-14 days
32	Pneumonic plague	Yersinia pestis	1-3 days
33	Poliomyelitis	Poliovirus	7-14 days
34	Q fever	Coxiella burnetti	2-3 weeks
35	Rabies	Lyssavirus type 1 (Rhabdovirus)	3-8 weeks
36	Rubella (German Measles)	RNA Togavirus	14-21 days
37	SARS	Corona virus	3-5 days
38	Scrub typhus	Rickettsia tsutsugamushi	10-12 days
39	Septicemic plague	Yersinia pestis	2-7 days
40	Staphylococcal food poisoning	Staphylococcus aureus	1-6 hours
41	Swine Flu	H,N, Type A Influenza	1-4 days
42	Taeniasis (Tapeworm)	T. solium, T. saginata	8-14 weeks
43	Tetanus	Clostridium tetani	6-10 days
44	Trachoma	Chlamydia trachomatis	5-12 days
45	Tuberculosis	Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Weeks-years
46	Typhoid fever	Salmonella typhi	10-14 days
47	Yaws	Treponema pertene	3-5 weeks
48	Yellow fever	Flavivirus fibricus	2-6 days

References: WHO