a population is a group of people with a common characteristic.

A substance produced by or derived from a microorganism, which destroys or inhibits the growth of other microorganisms.

See: Early warning surveillance

vector-borne zoonotic disease, spread by ticks, can be found in humans, domestic and wild animals

The Knowledge Graph is a knowledge base, i.e. a technology used to store complex structured and unstructured information used by a computer system. Knowledge graph is used by...

In the context of epidemiology: Making data from different sources comparable. The processes involved in producing inferentially equivalent data.

ability of arthropods to acquire, maintain, and transmit microbial agents. Not all blood-sucking arthropods are vectors (transmitters) of disease agents.

Data (variable) with a potentially infinite number of possible values along a continuum (e.g., height, weight, enzyme output)

Of, relating to, or used in excretion: excretory organs.

Surveillance that is not focused on specific hazards and uses general tests (e.g. clinical examination or gross pathology). Syndromic surveillance is a form of general...

Semantics is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning, in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics. It is concerned with the relationship between...

Application of quantitative methods to decision-making.

The process of assuring interoperability of data is focused on making sure that data can be processed by different systems. Differently from data standardisation, there is no...

An adverse health or ecologic effect; a source of risk if an exposure pathway exists, and if exposures have possible adverse consequences.

to ensure that each country has the capacity to define, detect and respond to communicable public health threats, objective assessment of interventions during epidemics; and....

vector-borne zoonotic disease, spread by tritons bugs (kissing bugs), can be found in humans and animals

The evaluation of the likelihood and the biological and economic consequences of entry, establishment and spread of a hazard within the territory of a country.

Inventory of epidemiological data sources, epidemiological studies, standards, methods/approaches for data analysis and interpretation, modelling and decision support for...

NGS is frequently used to identify mutations in DNA samples from individual patients or experimental organisms. Sequencing can be done at the whole-genome scale; RNA-seq, which...