Surveillance that is not focused on specific hazards and uses general tests (e.g. clinical examination or gross pathology). Syndromic surveillance is a form of general...

Semantics is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning, in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics. It is concerned with the relationship between...

Application of quantitative methods to decision-making.

’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.

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.

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...

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

A pathogen present in food, which may cause human disease(s) or illness through consumption of food contaminated with the pathogen and / or the biological products produced by...

Any person who directly handles packaged or unpackaged food, food equipment and utensils, or food contact surfaces and is therefore expected to comply with food hygiene...