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

A collection of concepts and relationships needed to model all the data and information collected in the process of surveillance, including surveillance inputs, methods, and...

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

Number of target organisms present in a defined volume/weight/area of a sample

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

The aspect of epidemiology concerned with why and how a health problem occurs. Analytic epidemiology uses comparison groups to provide baseline or expected values so that...

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"

When the totality of a population or sub-population, on which the data are reported, is included.

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.

An analytical method, agreed upon as the best method for a certain analyte in a certain matrix, to which alternative methods shoul be compared. The standard culture procedures...

Investigator-initiated collection of animal health related data using a defined protocol to perform actions that are scheduled in advance. Decisions about whether information is...

any substance or product, including additives, whether processed, partially processed or unprocessed, intended to be used for oral feeding to animals

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...

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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;...

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same as syndromic surveillance

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

Surveillance that is focused on one or more pre-defined hazards (disease, condition, biological, chemical or physical agent, or event) often this form of surveillance uses...