In medicine, the<unk>  for a test designed to detect a specific disease (particularly infectious disease) is the time between first infection and when the test can reliably detect that infection. In antibody-based testing, the<unk>  is dependent on the time taken for seroconversion. The<unk>  is important to epidemiology and safe sex strategies, and in blood and organ donation, because during this time, an infected person or animal cannot be detected as infected but may still be able to infect others. For this reason, the most effective disease-prevention strategies combine testing with a waiting period longer than the test's<unk> .
Window period
Benefit period
Breakthrough infection
Pandemic
Incubation period
Spillover infection
Convalescence
Postdrome