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.

Health care-associated infection (HCAI), also referred to as "nosocomial" or "hospital" infection, is an infection occurring in a patient during the process of care in a...

A step at which control can be applied and is essential to prevent or eliminate a food safety hazard or reduce it to an acceptable level.

Propective case finding (based on clinical criteria) and peer review to improve identification of adverse events

vector-borne zoonotic diseases, spread by fleas, and can be found in humans and other mammals

Antibiotics are usually classified or grouped by their chemical structure. Some antibiotic classes work by killing bacteria and others work by preventing the ability of bacteria...

A consignment is a quantity of some commodity delivered at one time. It may consist in either a portion of a lot, either a set of several lots.

An alternative method is a method of analysis that demonstrates or estimates, for a given category of products, the same analyte as is measured using the corresponding reference...

A drug which, at low concentrations, exerts an action against microbial pathogens and exhibits selective toxicity towards them. Antimicrobials typically include antibiotics but...

Designing a sampling strategy to reduce the cost or enhance the accuracy of surveillance by preferentially sampling strata (e.g. age groups or geographical areas) within the...

"genotype" refers to the genetic makeup of an organism; in other words, it describes an organism's complete set of genes. In a more narrow sense, the term can be used to refer...

An individual in which a parasite undergoes some kind of development, generally with asexual reproduction. A host that is normally used by a parasite in the course of its life...

The person, animal, object, or substance from which an infectious agent is transmitted, either directly or indirectly, to a host

A method, procedure, or measurement that is widely accepted as being the best available. Often used to compare with new methods.

The identification and implementation of policies and activities designed either to prevent zoonotic disease agents from creating health risks or to lessen their frequency,...

Surveillance that complements indicator-based surveillance by continuously scanning the Internet and other communication media to detect information that might lead to the...

an insidious non:killing parasitic vector-borne disease of public health significance, caused by the filarial roundworm Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart, 1893), which is...

The action or state of making or being made impure by polluting or poisoning.

Next-generation sequencing refers to non-Sanger-based high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies. Millions or billions of DNA strands can be sequenced in parallel, yielding...