Case

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-004284",
  "term": "Case",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The situation that is the subject of a causal analysis; for example, the case may be an impaired stream reach and the upstream and downstream reaches, or an estuary and the lower reaches of its tributaries.\n\n2. In epidemiology, a countable instance in the population or study group of a particular disease, health disorder, or condition under investigation. Sometimes, an individual with the particular disease.\n\n3. An individual who is ill following ingestion of food. Outbreak cases reported by CDC are determined to be contaminated on the basis of laboratory analysis and/or epidemiological evidence. Not all outbreak cases need be confirmed by laboratory analysis if there is sufficient epidemiological evidence linking them to the outbreak.",
  "subject": "Policy and guidance",
  "references": [
    "CADDIS Glossary",
    "CDC 2005",
    "USDA 2004"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/case/"
}