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'''Prevalence''' is the "total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from [[incidence]], which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time." <ref>{{MeSH}}</ref>
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Prevalence is the "total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from incidence, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time." [1]

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