In this team, each member becomes so familiar with the roles and responsibilities of the other members that tasks and functions become interchangeable to some extent. This type...

Identification of undiagnosed cases of disease using rapid tests or examinations

See "food"

The conditions that surround a given area, especially in reference to parameters which may influence the functioning of devices, equipment, or the readings of instruments. These...

A form of integrative research that employs a holistic and/or systems thinking and participatory action research, combines knowledge from outside, as well as within academia and...

The ability of a test/case definition/surveillance system to identify true cases; the proportion of people with a health condition (or the proportion of outbreaks) that are...

Biotic factors are the living parts of an ecosystem. Biotic factors such as soil bacteria, plant life, top predators, and polluters can all profoundly shape which organisms can...

A pure strain of bacteria which has been seperated from a mixed bacterial culture

Whether the system captures information about more than one hazard

Peparing purified DNA for NGS. Fragmentizes long DNA strands and ligates primers and other sequencing related bits.

The number of sequence reads in a sequencing project that align to positions that overlap a specific base on a target genome, or the average number of aligned reads that overlap...

An assessment of organisational structures include whether the objectives are relevant and clearly defined and the existence of steering and technical committees whose members...

Term not used in this sector

The case fatality ratio is the comparison of Case fatality rate (CFR) of two diseases.

Measures the proportions of positive results in statistics and diagnostic tests that are true positive results

MLST is a nucleotide sequence based approach for the unambiguous characterisation of isolates of bacteria and other organisms via the internet. The aim of MLST is to provide a...

A process that begins when an agent leaves its reservoir or host through a portal of exit, and is conveyed by some mode of transmission, then enters through an appropriate...

A measure of the predictive value of a reported case or epidemic; the proportion of cases reported by a surveillance system or classified by a case definition which are true cases.

The classification of microorganisms on the basis of variation in the genotype, and/ or presence or absence of specific genes (such as those which may contribute to the...

Reasoner is a piece of software able to infer logical consequences from a set of asserted facts or axioms. The notion of a reasoner generalizes that of an inference engine, by...