Refers to a replica. DNA molecules can be cloned using bacteria or viruses as hosts. A genetic clone can also refer to an organism that is a genetic copy of the original -...

a series of lots produced, manufactured or commercialised on a continuous manner, under conditions presumed uniform. The inspection of a continuous series of lots can only be...

are measures of a drugs minimum inhibitory concentration distribution that separate bacterial populations into those representative of a wild type population, and those with...

Perfect reference standard, i.e. sensitivity and specificity 100%.

A consignment is a quantity of some commodity delivered at one time. It may consist in either a portion of a lot, either a set of several lots.

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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...

closeness of estimates to the unknown true values

A contaminant is any substance not intentionally added to food which is present in such food as a result of the production (including operations carried out in crop husbandry,...

the ability of microorganisms of certain species to survive or even grow in the presence of a given concentration of an antimicrobial agent that is usually sufficient to inhibit...

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

Breakpoints are discriminatory antimicrobial concentrations used in the interpretation of results of susceptibility testing to define isolates as susceptible, intermediate or...

clinical investigation in animals is considered as a selective way of sampling and results in a number of samples obtained in a passive way. The samples obtained and analysed...

the ability of a method to discriminate/make a distinction between isolates

the use of one or several molecular methods to derive the serotype (examples PCR and/or sequencing)

dietary food for special medical purposes, as defined in Commission Directive 1999/21/EC

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any action that substantially alters the initial product, including heating, smoking, curing, maturing, drying, marinating, extraction, extrusion or a combination of those...

Study of the performance of the alternative method using identical samples in several laboratories and controlled by the expert laboratory.