’Survey’: means an investigation in which information is collected systematically usually carried out on a sample of a defined population group, within a defined time period.

The process of assuring interoperability of data is focused on making sure that data can be processed by different systems. Differently from data standardisation, there is no...

An adverse health or ecologic effect; a source of risk if an exposure pathway exists, and if exposures have possible adverse consequences.

The unit which the specimens taken represent and which is considered either infected (contaminated) or not, based on the analyses result

The determination of the relationship between the magnitude of exposure (dose) to a chemical, biological or physical agent and the severity and/or frequency of associated...

to ensure that each country has the capacity to define, detect and respond to communicable public health threats, objective assessment of interventions during epidemics; and....

vector-borne zoonotic disease, spread by tritons bugs (kissing bugs), can be found in humans and animals

The evaluation of the likelihood and the biological and economic consequences of entry, establishment and spread of a hazard within the territory of a country.

Means a group of animals with a defined epidemiological relationship that share approximately the same likelihood of exposure to a pathogenic agent. This may be because they...

Inventory of epidemiological data sources, epidemiological studies, standards, methods/approaches for data analysis and interpretation, modelling and decision support for...

NGS is frequently used to identify mutations in DNA samples from individual patients or experimental organisms. Sequencing can be done at the whole-genome scale; RNA-seq, which...

Outbreak involving human cases from more than one household. Outbreaks in residential homes (e.g. nursing homes), schools and other similar institutions are considered to be...

Determining which hazards should be selected for surveillance based on information about the probability of their occurrence and the extent of biologic and/or economic...

Strain differentiation by determining the number different alleles in a predefined set of loci that represents core genes.

Endemic, sporadic, free, exotic, re-emerging, new, situation varies

Capable of causing disease.

The current state of the disease in the geographical area covered. E.g. free of disease, endemic, etc.

flavivirus (genus Flavivirus) that causes an illness marked by fever, headache, muscle ache, skin rash, and sometimes encephalitis or meningitis, which is spread chiefly by...

Each member of the sampling frame is a sampling unit

Health surveillance system that looks at reports, stories, rumors, community-based and other information about health events that could be a serious risk to public health. Such...