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Modern infectious disease epidemiology /

by Giesecke, Johan [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookEdition: Third edition.Description: xii, 233 pages ; 27 cm.ISBN: 9781138704633; 9781444180022 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology | Epidemiologic MethodsOnline resources: item available in hard copy
Contents:
What is special about infectious disease epidemiology? -- Definitions -- Descriptive epidemiology -- Risk, relative risk, and attack rate -- The case-control study : odds, odds ratio ; the concept of confounding -- The cohort study : rates. ; the concept of bias -- The cohort study: rates ; the concept of bias -- Clinical epidemiology : sensitivity, specificity, misclassification -- Multivariate analysis and interaction -- Survival analysis -- Mathematical models for epidemics -- Detection and analysis of outbreaks -- Routine surveillance of infectious diseases -- Measuring infectivity -- Studying the natural history of infectious diseases -- Seroepidemiology -- The study of contact patterns -- Methods to decide whether or not an illness is infectious -- The epidemiology of vaccination -- The use of subtyping.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is special about infectious disease epidemiology? -- Definitions -- Descriptive epidemiology -- Risk, relative risk, and attack rate -- The case-control study : odds, odds ratio ; the concept of confounding -- The cohort study : rates. ; the concept of bias -- The cohort study: rates ; the concept of bias -- Clinical epidemiology : sensitivity, specificity, misclassification -- Multivariate analysis and interaction -- Survival analysis -- Mathematical models for epidemics -- Detection and analysis of outbreaks -- Routine surveillance of infectious diseases -- Measuring infectivity -- Studying the natural history of infectious diseases -- Seroepidemiology -- The study of contact patterns -- Methods to decide whether or not an illness is infectious -- The epidemiology of vaccination -- The use of subtyping.

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