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A substance, such as an antibiotic, that kills or stops the growth of microbes, including bacteria, fungi, or viruses. Antimicrobials are grouped according to the microbes they...

The occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy.

The qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation of the likely intake of biological, chemical, and physical agents via food as well as exposures from other sources if relevant.

An incidence, observed under given circumstances, of two or more human cases of the same disease and/or infection, or a situation in which the observed number of human cases...

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The number of new cases within a specified time period divided by the size of the population initially at risk.

a statistically significant association between zoonosis in a foodstuff and an infected human/ animal/ batch in an analytical epidemiological study

import (see import), and the placing of goods under the customs procedures referred to in points (b) to (f) of Article 4(16) of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92, as well as their...

The period between inoculation and appearance of visible symptoms.

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Traditional disease surveillance which relies on the collection of data about the occurrence of pre-defined diseases or conditions and which uses agreed-upon case definitions;...

Aggregations of relatively uncommon events or diseases in space and/or time in amounts that are believed or perceived to be from a common source.

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Criteria used to categorise output for decision making at any stage of the surveillance process

refer to groups of samples expected to be more similar than random e.g. samples from pigs from same herd or carcasses from same abbatoir

the first case or instance of a patient coming to the attention of health authorities.

Referring to an epidemic limited to localized increase in the incidence of a disease, e.g., in a village, town, or closed institution.

A communicable disease is an illness due to a specific infectious (biological) agent or its toxic products capable of being directly or indirectly transmitted from...