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Unit in epidemiology is in most cases the human individual. However, ecological studies regard entire populations such as countries, states, or cities as units of analysis. Some...

an infectious agent that can produce disease, such as a prion, virus, bacterium, protozoan, fungus, plant or animal. Organism capable of causing a disease.

An infectious disease that is transmissible from animals to humans.

Suspicion of a food vehicle in an outbreak based on theidentification of common food exposures, from the systematic evaluation of cases and theircharacteristics and...

Surveillance that is focused on one or more pre-defined hazards; often using diagnostic tests for the detection of particular pathogens (e.g. molecular diagnostic tests).

An infection acquired in hospital by a patient who was admitted for a reason other than that infection (1). An infection occurring in a patient in a hospital or other health...

This is the location (‘setting’) where the food was consumed or where the final stages of preparation of the food vehicle took place (e.g. café/restaurant, institution, home,...

vector-borne zoonotic disease, spread by mosquitoes, Culex, can be found in humans, horses and birds

The probability that an animal has been infected given that it tests positive; predictive values are a function of the diagnostic sensitivity and diagnostic specificity of...

See "passive surveillance"

An infectious disease transmissible (as from person to person) by direct contact with an affected individual or the individual's discharges or by indirect means (as by a vector).

Case of infection occring among contacts of primary cases within the incubation period following exposure to a primary case

consequence of massive simuliid attacks leading to serious health impairment, ultimately to death of the host, as a result of the toxic effect of salivary injections of many...

Direct and indirect advantages produced by the surveillance system. This does not need to be limited to financial savings and better use of resources but can also include any...

The burden of a particular disease or condition is estimated by adding together: • the number of years of life a person loses as a consequence of dying early because of the...

the state of a disease, infection or other condition being maintained in a population without the need of external outputs. The population involved and their geographical...

whiel incidence measures the frequency with which new disease develops, prevalence measures the frequency of existing disease. It is simply defined as the propostion of the...

Food (or foodstuff) that is suspected of causing human cases.