Capable of being transmitted by insect and tick or mites (arthropod) vectors.

The condition in which a disease spreads rapidly through a community in which that disease is normally not present or is present at a low level.

Differences in health status or in the distribution of health determinants between different population groups.

Indicative of, or caused by, a disease or condition.

An aggregation of cases of a disease, injury, or other health condition (particularly cancer and birth defects) in a circumscribed area during a particular period without regard...

An epidemic in which new cases of disease occur over a long period, indicating persistence of the disease source.

A drug that kills or stops the growth of bacteria. Antibiotics are a type of antimicrobial. Penicillin and ciprofloxacin are examples of antibiotics.

Branching diagram that illustrates the lines of evolutionary descent of different biological species, organisms, or genes from a common ancestor based upon similarities and...

The laws, regulations and administrative provisions governing food in general, and food safety in particular, whether at Community or national level; it covers any stage of...

Observer-initiated provision of animal health related data (e.g. voluntary notification of suspect disease) or the use of existing data for surveillance. Decisions about whether...

A quantitative or qualitative measurement, or any other criterion, by which the performance, efficiency, achievement, etc of a person or organization can be assessed, often by...

Whether the surveillance system produces the desired effect without wasting resources. Three levels of economic efficiency can be defined: - Optimisation: maximising the net...

A set of uniformly applied criteria for determining whether an individual should be identified as having a particular disease, injury, or other health condition. In...

Multidrug resistance (MDR) is defined as non‐susceptibility to at least one agent in three or more antimicrobial categories

Extraction of pure DNA from a biological sample

Repeatability is the closeness of agreement between successive and independent results obtained by the same method on identical test material under the same conditions...

Knowledge management involves activities related to the capture, use and sharing of knowledge by the organisation. It involves the management both of external linkages and of...

considers the role of changing environments with regard to infectious and chronic disease risks affecting humans and nonhuman animals.

A computational method that lines up, as a set of rows of text, three or more sequences (of DNA, RNA, or proteins) to maximize the identity of overlapping positions while...

Schema markup is structured data markup, a universally shared language format that helps search engines understand and return the best results for users who are searching for...