Food-borne zoonotic diseases are caused by consuming food or drinking water contaminated by pathogenic (disease-causing) micro-organisms such as bacteria and their toxins,...

Property of bacteria that confers the capacity to inactivate or exclude antibiotics or a mechanism that blocks the inhibitory or killing effects of antibiotics.

Common source outbreaks where the source has infected cases at one particular geographical location, during a short period of time, are called 'point source outbreaks'. In such...

A process consisting of three interconnected components: risk assessment, risk management and risk communication

Difficulty or impossibility for an infectious agent to pass from one species to another (due to differences between species).

Prevalence is the number of instances of disease or related attributes (e.g., infection or resence of antibodies) in a known population, at a designated time, without...

Is the interactive transmission and exchange of information and opinions throughout the risk analysis process concerning risk, risk-related factors and risk perceptions among...

A previously undefined (unknown) disease or condition, which might result from the evolution or change in an existing pathogen or parasite resulting in a change of strain, host...

In epidemiology it is often used when tracing where and infections has come from (backward-tracing) or where it may have been spread to (forward-tracing).

Term not used in this sector

In the context of epidemiology: Making data from different sources comparable. The processes involved in producing inferentially equivalent data.

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

Case fatality is the concept used to express the proportion of cases of a certain disease that actually dies due to the consequences of that disease.

Case fatality is the concept used to express the proportion of cases of a certain disease that actually dies due to the consequences of that disease.

An individual animal infected by a pathogenic agent, with or without clinical signs.

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Person involved in the outbreak as defined by the investigators. This can include both ill people (whether or not disease is confirmed microbiologically) and people with...

In the context of epidemiology: Making data from different sources comparable. The processes involved in producing inferentially equivalent data. Related Terms:data integration

See "mortality rate"