A well-defined strain that is used as the example strain for a specific method.

A disease of low morbidity that is constantly present in an animal community in a geographically confined area. The non-human equivalent of Endemic

sensitivity is the probability that a test correctly classifies positive individuals who have preclinical disease. Sensivity is expressed as a percentage: The number of...

The extent to which a prevalence estimate produced by the surveillance system deviates from the value of the true prevalence . Bias is reduced as representativeness is increased.

a situation in which infection has elicited signs and symptoms in the infected individual; the infection has become clinically apparent.

epidemiological studies generally compare the frequency of disease in two (or more) groups according to a characteristic of interest that is usually called exposure. Those who...

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

Findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable data

Process by which a pathogen passes from a source of infection to a new host.

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means the evaluation of the likelihood and the biological and economic consequences of entry, establishment and spread of a hazard

Public health surveillance based on serological testing of characteristic changes in the serum level of specific antibodies. Latent, subclinical infections and carrier states...

Structural interoperability is an intermediate level that defines the structure or format of data exchange (i.e., the message format standards) where there is uniform movement...

A qualitative method is a method of analysis whose response is either the presence or absence of the analyte in a certain amount of sample.

Designing a sampling strategy to reduce the cost or enhance the accuracy of surveillance by preferentially sampling strata (e.g. age groups or geographical areas) within the...

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

Any virus, bacteria, fungus, parasite or other biological entity that is likely to cause a zoonosis

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Unit in epidemiology is in most cases the human individual. However, ecological studies regard entire populations such as countries, states, or cities as units of analysis. Some...

an infectious agent that can produce disease, such as a prion, virus, bacterium, protozoan, fungus, plant or animal. Organism capable of causing a disease.