Table 2.

Parameters for guiding annotation of animal infectious and zoonotic diseases

A: Disease parameters	17. Treatment	33. Reservoir
1. Disease name	18. Preventive measures	34. Entry and exit portal
2. Name synonyms	B: Pathogen parameters	35. Hosts
3. Ontology (DO) name	19. Family	36. Transmission
4. DO identifier	20. Genus	37. Incubation (days, months)
5. Listing agency	21. Species	38. First isolation (year)
6. Causal agent	22. Species taxons (NCBI counts)	C: Molecular parameters
7. Type of infection	23. Subspecies	39. Biomarker name
8. Animal symptoms	24. Subspecies taxons (NCBI counts)	40. Biomarker symbol
9. Human symptoms	25. TaxonID	41. Biomarker UniProtKB AC
10. Outbreaks	26. Taxon level	42. Biomarker group
11. Distribution	27. Infectivity	43. Biomarker class
12. CMH disease type	28. Pathogenicity	44. Experimental organism
13. Disease frequency	29. Virulence	45. Biomarker references
14. Case fatality rate	30. Toxigenicity	46. Reference publication date
15. Risk factors	31. Resistance	47. Biomarker evidence text
16. Diagnosis	32. Antigenicity	48. URL for molecular data

CMH, Commission on Macroeconomics and Health.