The number of new cases within a specified time period divided by the size of the population initially at risk.

Definition stating when the sample is considered to be positive for the zoonotic agent or when the person, animal, herd or flock is considered to be infected with the zoonotic...

A contiguous stretch of DNA sequence that is the result of assembly of multiple overlapping sequence reads into a single consensus sequence. A contig requires a complete tiling...

(Disease) surveillance system is an epidemiological practice by which the spread of disease is monitored in order to establish patterns of progression. The main role of disease...

Localized occurrence as opposed to a generalized epidemic.

Use of prior or additional information about the probability of hazard occurrence to revise the surveillance intensity required to achieve the stated surveillance purpose.

When DNA sequence is obtained by any experimental method, including both Sanger and next-generation methods, the data are obtained from individual template molecules as a string...

zoonostic disease caused by Coxiella burnetii, spread by inhalation of direct contact to infected animals. Has been detected in > 40 tick species, but tick-borne infection of...

A measure of the number of infections produced, on average, by an infected individual in the early stages of an epidemic, when virtually all contacts are susceptible.

One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of "healthy" life. The sum of these DALYs across the population, or the burden of disease, can be thought of as a measurement of the...

A standard hypothetical prevalence of disease specified at the herd (herd design prevalence, PH) or at the animal level (PA) against which to measure surveillance sensitivity....

States those goal(s) that when met will result in the collection and analysis of data in order to achieve the purpose of the system.

Suspicion of a food vehicle in an outbreak based on theidentification of common food exposures, from the systematic evaluation of cases and theircharacteristics and...

Public health surveillance in which data are sent to the health agency without prompting

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DNA sequencing technologies that simultaneously determine the sequence of DNA bases from many thousands (or millions) of DNA templates in a single biochemical reaction volume....

It is used to report the samples collected and analysed according to the Regulation 2073/2005 on microbiological criteria. These samples can be taken either to check the...

allocation of surveillance activities is guided by the probability of events with or without consideration of the consequences of the event; the management of the event; or the...

A Risk Assessment based on data which, while forming an inadequate basis for numerical risk estimations, nonetheless, when conditioned by prior expert knowledge and...