Determination of the complete DNA sequence of an organism

A metadata standard is a requirement which is intended to establish a common understanding of the meaning or semantics of the data, to ensure correct and proper use and...

consequence of massive simuliid attacks leading to serious health impairment, ultimately to death of the host, as a result of the toxic effect of salivary injections of many...

Direct and indirect advantages produced by the surveillance system. This does not need to be limited to financial savings and better use of resources but can also include any...

A collection of clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and exhaustive terms, which are the only choices for usage in a specific surveillance context. Compared to ontologies (see...

the state of a disease, infection or other condition being maintained in a population without the need of external outputs. The population involved and their geographical...

whiel incidence measures the frequency with which new disease develops, prevalence measures the frequency of existing disease. It is simply defined as the propostion of the...

Food (or foodstuff) that is suspected of causing human cases.

The evaluation should list and quantify each of the resources required to operate the surveillance system and identify who provides eachresource. These resources could include:...

Infrastructure needed for the harmonisation and integration of One Health Surveillance data: data standards, software libraries, ontologies, terminology mappings, software...

A short string of text that represents a portion of a DNA (or RNA) sequence. NGS machines produce short reads that are sequence fragments that are read from DNA fragments.

The probability that disease will be detected if present at a certain level (prevalence) in the population.

Biological method used to define/characterise an isolate

Name of organisation(s) and expertise of the personnel managing the surveillance activity and description of the organisational structure

Differences at specific positions between two aligned sequences. Variants include single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), insertions and deletions, copy number variants, and...

See "food-borne disease"

A method used to estimate the uncertainty associated with model inputs, assumptions and structure/form.

Assurance that food will not cause harm to the consumer when it is prepared and/or eaten according to its intended use.

attraction to mammals, usually refered to feeding on mammals

The systematic ongoing collection, collation and analysis of data for public health purposes and the timely dissemination of public health information for assessment and public...