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

A description of any legislation or regulations which act as the basis for determining the requirement for surveillance including whether there are any compensation arrangements...

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

Proportion of known uninfected reference animals that test negative in the assay; uninfected reference animals that test positive are considered to have false-positive results.

A well-defined strain that is used as the example strain for a specific method.

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

sensitivity is the probability that a test correctly classifies positive individuals who have preclinical disease. Sensivity is expressed as a percentage: The number of...

The extent to which a prevalence estimate produced by the surveillance system deviates from the value of the true prevalence . Bias is reduced as representativeness is increased.

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...

Findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable data

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

means the evaluation of the likelihood and the biological and economic consequences of entry, establishment and spread of a hazard

Public health surveillance based on serological testing of characteristic changes in the serum level of specific antibodies. Latent, subclinical infections and carrier states...

Structural interoperability is an intermediate level that defines the structure or format of data exchange (i.e., the message format standards) where there is uniform movement...

A qualitative method is a method of analysis whose response is either the presence or absence of the analyte in a certain amount of sample.

Designing a sampling strategy to reduce the cost or enhance the accuracy of surveillance by preferentially sampling strata (e.g. age groups or geographical areas) within the...

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

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