Ability to adapt to changing information needs or operating conditions with little additional time, personnel or allocated funds. Flexible systems can accommodate new...

Discipline dealing with the conception, production, dissemination and study of maps.

Refers to all the stages in the existence of digital information from creation to destruction. A lifecycle view is used to enable active management of the data objects and...

Consists of members who work together interdependently to develop goals and a common treatment plan, although they maintain distinct professional responsibilities and individual...

See "physical check"

the stage in the parasite life cycle at which it is able to initiate infection of its host(s).

Investigator-initiated active collection of animal health related data from individual units in a population which is not limited to a particular time period, to assess the...

vector-borne disease, spread by mosquitoes, Anopheles, can be found in birds, reptiles, mammals

A series of lots produced, manufactured or commercialised on a continuous manner, under conditions presumed uniform. The inspection of a continuous series of lots can only be...

The use of one or several molecular methods to derive the serotype (examples PCR and/or sequencing)

vector-borne zoonotic diseases, spread by mosquitoes, Culex, Aedes, humans, carnivores. Filariasis is a parasitic disease caused by an infection with Filarioidea roundworms....

consists of procedures implemented for temporary or continuous observation (e.g. of species dynamics) and is not followed by any additional activities.

Type specimen, type species or type genus.

The continuous, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data needed for planning, implementation, and evaluation related to zoonotic diseases.

a sequence of observation of data points measured over a time interval

Surveillance activities where samples collected for one disease agent are analysed for more than one purpose or for other disease agents, either in parallel or at a later stage.

Factor such as a microorganism whose presence is essential for the occurrence of a disease.

The systematic (regular) collection, monitoring, analysis and interpretation of structured data, i.e. of indicators produced by a number of well-identified, mostly health-based,...

A disease which is characterized by a single or repeated episode of relatively rapid onset and short duration from which the patient usually returns to his/her normal or...

Consists of members of different disciplines, involved in the same task (assessing people, setting goals and making care recommendations) and working alongside each other, but...