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

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

A system of surveillance which aims to routinely collect additional/supplementary information pertinent to the disease, such as exposure information.

A substance, such as an antibiotic, that kills or stops the growth of microbes, including bacteria, fungi, or viruses. Antimicrobials are grouped according to the microbes they...

how sequencing works in most NGS methods, a single library fragment is amplified and copied in a physically isolated location.

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.

The process of killing (inactivating) harmful and objectionable bacteria, cysts and other microorganisms (pathogenic) by various agents such as chemicals, heat, ultraviolet...

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

The identification of biological, chemical, and physical agents capable of causing adverse health effects and which may be present in a particular food or group of foods.

The qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation of the likely intake of biological, chemical, and physical agents via food as well as exposures from other sources if relevant.

An incidence, observed under given circumstances, of two or more human cases of the same disease and/or infection, or a situation in which the observed number of human cases...

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a systematic and independent examination to determine whether activities and related results comply with planned arrangements and whether these arrangements are implemented...

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...

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a container that is designed and intended to be secure against the entry of hazards