Suspicion of a food vehicle in an outbreak based on theidentification of common food exposures, from the systematic evaluation of cases and theircharacteristics and...

DNA sequencing technologies that simultaneously determine the sequence of DNA bases from many thousands (or millions) of DNA templates in a single biochemical reaction volume....

It is used to report the samples collected and analysed according to the Regulation 2073/2005 on microbiological criteria. These samples can be taken either to check the...

allocation of surveillance activities is guided by the probability of events with or without consideration of the consequences of the event; the management of the event; or the...

A Risk Assessment based on data which, while forming an inadequate basis for numerical risk estimations, nonetheless, when conditioned by prior expert knowledge and...

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

Aggregations of relatively uncommon events or diseases in space and/or time in amounts that are believed or perceived to be from a common source

Direct (e.g. culture) or indirect (e.g. serological) identification of the causative agent in clinical samples taken from outbreak cases.

A native or indigenous species is a species that occurs within its natural geographical range (past or present) and dispersal potential (i.e. within the range it occupies...

The sensitivity is the ability/probability of the method to detect the analyte when it is present

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Predictive risk models (PRMs) are case-finding tools that enable health care systems to identify patients at risk of expensive and potentially avoidable events such as emergency...

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Either a newly recognized, clinically distinct infectious disease or a known infectious disease whose reported incidence is increasing in a given place or among a specific...

An amplicon is a specific fragment or locus of DNA from a target organism (or organisms), generally 200–1000 bp in length, copied millions of times by the polymerase chain...

Harmonisation seeks to bring together various types, levels and sources of data in such a way that they can be made compatible and comparable, and thus useful for decision...

Failure to meet a critical limit.

A trend is a change or development towards something new or different.

Technical infrastructure to share data

The stakeholders in One Health include the ultimate beneficiaries (i.e. animals, people and the environment) and the organisations that work to protect them (i.e. research...