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  • GlossaryTerm

    Attack Rate (AT)

    Attack rates are actually risks (or "incidence proportion" or "cumulative incidence"). Attack rates are often expressed as a percentage. An attack rate is not an incidence rate....
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    Microbiological Cluster

    A group of isolates that are related to each other at a defined genetic threshold (WGS cluster)/defined level of phenotypic test result similarity
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    Health Care Team

    A group comprising a variety of professionals (medical practitioners, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, social workers, pharmacists, spiritual counsellors), as well...
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    Antimicrobial

    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...
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    Animal Health Status

    Status of a country, zone or compartment with respect to a animal disease in accordance with the criteria listed in the relevant disease-specific chapter or Chapter 1.4. of the...
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    Biotic Factor

    Biotic factors are the living parts of an ecosystem. Biotic factors such as soil bacteria, plant life, top predators, and polluters can all profoundly shape which organisms can...
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    Risk Assessment

    Risk assessment is defined as the systematic process of gathering, assessing and documenting information to estimate the level of risk and associated uncertainty related to a...
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    Eradication

    Reduction of the worldwide incidence of a disease to zero as a result of deliberate efforts.
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    Biological Vector

    a vector in which an agent undergoes some kind of development or multiplication (biological)
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    Virulence

    The ability of any infectious agent to produce disease. The virulence of a microorganism (such as a bacterium or virus) is a measure of the severity of the disease it is capable...
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    Incidence

    The number of instances of illness commencing, or of persons falling ill, during a given period in a specified population
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    Risk/factor/ Risk Determinant

    An attribute or exposure that increases the probability of occurrence of disease or other specified outcome.
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    Vector

    an invertebrate animal (usually an arthropod) that transmits infectious agents to vertebrates. In infectious disease epidemiology, an insect or any living carrier that...
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  • GlossaryTerm

    Epidemic

    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.
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    Definitive Host

    the species host in which the sexual reproduction phase of a parasite takes place (synonym with final host)
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    Extensive

    [L. extendere, to stretch out]Widespread. In cancer, widely metastatic.
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    Indicator-Based Surveillance (IBS)

    Term not used in this sector
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    Reservoir (Host)

    a host which is a common source of an infectious agent to other animals, including humans.
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    Simulid

    sin. black fly, blackfly, pl. black flies, blackflies. Small size flies, members of Simuliidae family (order Diptera). Females of majority of species require a blood meal for...
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    Establishment

    is the perpetuation, for the foreseeable future, of an invasive species within an area following introduction.
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