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...

single dependant variable

Phylogenetic tree, a diagram showing the evolutionary interrelations of a group of organisms derived from a common ancestral form. The ancestor is in the tree “trunk”; organisms...

The evaluation of a surveillance system/component is the determination of its merit by confronting the results of the assessment with targets set by the stakeholders, standard...

Propective case finding (based on clinical criteria) and peer review to improve identification of adverse events

vector-borne zoonotic disease, spread by sand flies, cause by a number of viruses and can be found also in rodents (rats) and all other vertebrates.

genetic change not inherited from parents, but arises via induced mutation.

vector-borne disease, spread by mosquitoes, Aedes, not zoonotic, can be found only in humans

Reproducibility is the closeness of agreement between single test results on identical test material using the same method and obtained by operators in different laboratories...

A statistically significant association between zoonosis in a foodstuff and an infected human/ animal/ batch in an analytical epidemiological study

A technique used for the separation of large deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules by applying to a gel matrix an electric field that periodically changes direction. It is...

vector-borne zoonotic disease, spread by mosquitoes, Culex, often found in horses; birds and pigs are reservoirs

Ratio of the probability of an event occurring in the exposed group versus the probability of the event occurring in the non-exposed group

Monitoring of a person who might have been exposed to an infectious, chemical, radiologic, or other potentially causal agent, for the purpose of detecting early symptoms

The central authority of a Member State competent for the organisation of official controls or any other authority to which that competence has been conferred; it shall also...

A method for bringing together the information contained in two or more records —e.g., in different databases/information sources —and a procedure to ensure that each individual...

Source attribution is a term used in statistics or forensics (and is different than attribution, as used in Social Psychology) of a data source that does not require a unique...

is the probability that a test correctly classifies individuals without preclinical disease as negative. Specificity is also expressed as a percetage: The number of individuals...

vector-borne zoonotic disease, spread by ticks, can be found in humans, rabbits, hares, and rodents. Also oral infections are common after consumption (or handling) of infected...