A pattern on the distribution of cases/health events on space and time different from the null hypothesis of random distribution of cases/health events in space and time.

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Relating to or marked by intensity; denoting a form of treatment by means of very large doses or of substances possessing great strength or activity.

Observer-initiated provision of animal health related data with active investigator involvement e.g. by actively encouraging producers to report certain types of disease or by...

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

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.

Pattern of connections between units housing animals, usually applied to traceability movements.

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

Independent scientific experts who carry out scientific assessments and develop related assessment methodologies

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

A curated consensus sequence for all of the DNA in the genome (all of the chromosomes) of a species of organism. Because the reference genome is created as the synthesis of a...

A clone is a group of identical cells (e.g. bacteria) that share a common ancestry, meaning they are derived from the same cell.

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...

See "performance indicator"

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