Shortened form of arthropod-borne virus. Any of a group of viruses that are transmitted to man and animals by arthopods such as mosquitoes, ticks, and sand flies; they include...

Discrimination of bacteria below the level of species.

A statistically significant association between consumption of a foodstuff and being a case in an analytical epidemiological study (e.g. cohort or case–control study)

The art and science of dealing with the protection and improvement of community health by organized community effort and including preventive medicine and sanitary and social...

Outbreak where all the human cases live in one single household

vector-borne zoonotic disease, spread by flies

Sampling is the process of selecting a number of cases from all the cases in a particular group or universe.

A native or indigenous species is a species that occurs within its natural geographical range (past or present) and dispersal potential (i.e. within the range it occupies...

The ultimate consumer of a foodstuff who will not use the food as part of any foodbusiness operation or activity

The occurrence of cases of disease in excess of what would normally be expected in a defined community, geographical area or season. An outbreak may occur in a restricted...

A measure of association that quantifies the association between an exposure and a health outcome from an epidemiologic study, calculated as the ratio of incidence proportions...

Study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations. Epidemiology is the basic quantitative science of public health.

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One Health surveillance describes the systematic collection, validation, analysis, interpretation of data and dissemination of information collected on humans, animals and the...

vector-borne disease, spread by mosquitoes, Aedes, not zoonotic, can be found in humans and primates

A disease of low morbidity that is constantly present in an animal community in a geographically confined area. The non-human equivalent of Endemic

a situation in which infection has elicited signs and symptoms in the infected individual; the infection has become clinically apparent.

epidemiological studies generally compare the frequency of disease in two (or more) groups according to a characteristic of interest that is usually called exposure. Those who...

Process by which a pathogen passes from a source of infection to a new host.

Any virus, bacteria, fungus, parasite or other biological entity that is likely to cause a zoonosis