First case of a disease to be identified at the start of an outbreak. The index case is the first patient that indicates the existence of an outbreak. It does not necessarily...

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...

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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...

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...

Repeated collection of information from the same selected sites or groups of animals (e.g. veterinary practices laboratories herds or animals) to identify changes in the health...

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.

The natural or legal persons responsible for ensuring that the requirements of food law are met within the feed business under their control

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

Externally visible or appreciable changes in the body of an animal or one of its organs is an indicator of disease. The recognition of such changes using inspection, palpation,...

The incidence rate measures the occurrence of disease onsets in a population per unit of time of follow-up. Because of its similarity to population density, in an area, over...

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...

A systematic way of planning the number and type of samples required for an investigation.

single dependant variable

Investigator-initiated active collection of animal health related data from individual units in a population over a set period of time to assess the disease status within the...