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  • GlossaryTerm

    Propagated Outbreak

    One or more of the first wave of cases serves as a source of infection for subsequent cases and those subsequent cases, in turn, serve as sources for later cases. The shape of...
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    Demographic Information

    Personal characteristics of a person or group (e.g., age, sex, race/ethnicity, residence, and occupation) demographic information is used in descriptive epidemiology to...
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    Risk Management

    Means the process of identifying, selecting and implementing measures that can be applied to reduce the level of risk.
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    Odds Ratio (OR)

    Odds are expressed as the probability of an event occurring divided by the probability of the event not occurring. The odds ratio is a tool to show how strongly having or not...
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    Biota

    All living organisms of a given region.
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    Communicable Disease

    An infectious disease transmissible (as from person to person) by direct contact with an infected individual or the individual’s discharges or by indirect means (as by a vector).
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    Coverage

    The proportion of the population of interest (target population) that is included in the surveillance activity.
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    Zoonosis - Zoonotic Diseases

    disease or infection caused by an agent which is transmissible from animals to humans.
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    Risk Factor

    Any physical or contextual variable that contributes to the likelihood or impact of either a priority zoonotic disease, zoonotic disease event or emergency at the individual or...
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    Sampling Event

    The sampling unit or units extracted at certain time from the sampled population
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    Health

    The state of complete physical, mental, and social well: being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Health has many dimensions (anatomical, physiological and...
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    Mortality

    Mortality is the number of deaths for a given area during a given period. Infant mortality is the mortality of live-born children aged less than one year.
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    Infection

    The invasion of the body or a part of the body by a pathogenic agent, such as a microorganism or virus. Under favorable conditions the agent develops or multiplies, the results...
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    Primary, Secondary, Accidental, Paratenic Host

    A primary host or definitive host is a host in which the parasite reaches maturity and, if possible, reproduces sexually; A secondary host or intermediate host is a host that...
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    Incubation Period

    A period of subclinical or inapparent pathologic changes following exposure, ending with the onset of symptoms of infectious disease.
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    Pathogen

    Organism (e.g. bacterium, virus and parasite) that can cause disease.
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    Decision Tree

    A decision tree is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like model of decisions and their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource costs, and...
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    Subspecies

    In bacterial taxonomy subgroups of a species that differ in their phenotypic or genotypic characteristics.
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    Antibiotic

    A substance produced by or derived from a microorganism, which destroys or inhibits the growth of other microorganisms.
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    Epidemiological watch

    See: Early warning surveillance
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