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herd
A number of animals of one kind kept together under human control or a congregation of gregarious wild animals. -
event-based (media-based, digital) surveillance
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... -
Private file
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Private active surveillance
animal health Investigator-initiated collection of animal health related data using a defined protocol to perform actions that are scheduled in advance. Decisions about whether... -
Private alternative method
food safety & animal health An alternative method is a method of analysis that demonstrates or estimates, for a given category of products, the same analyte as is measured... -
Private analyte
food safety & animal health The analyte is the component demonstrated or measured by the method of analysis. It may be the microorganism, its components or products. -
Private active (proactive) surveillance
animal health Investigator-initiated collection of animal health related data using a defined protocol to perform actions that are scheduled in advance. Decisions about whether... -
Private analytical epidemiology
the aspect of epidemiology concerned with why and how a health problem occurs. Analytic epidemiology uses comparison groups to provide baseline or expected values so that... -
Private active surveillance
animal health Investigator-initiated collection of animal health related data using a defined protocol to perform actions that are scheduled in advance. Decisions about whether... -
Private clinical breakpoint
Breakpoints are discriminatory antimicrobial concentrations used in the interpretation of results of susceptibility testing to define isolates as susceptible, intermediate or... -
Private data integration (surveillance)
Data integration is a process in which heterogeneous data is retrieved and combined as an incorporated form and structure. Data integration allows different data types (such as... -
Private analytical epidemiological evidence
food safety & animal health a statistically significant association between consumption of a foodstuff and being a case in an analytical epidemiological study (e.g. cohort... -
Private epidemic
The occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness with a frequency clearly in excess of normal expectancy. -
Private adverse health effect
food safety & animal health A change in the morphology, physiology, growth, development, reproduction or life span of an organism, system, or (sub)population that results in... -
Private accuracy
animal health closeness of estimates to the unknown true values food safety The closeness of agreement between a measured quantity value and an assigned quantity value of...
