Modern infectious disease epidemiology / by Johan Giesecke.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Giesecke, Johan (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2017]
Edition:	Third edition.
Subjects:	Communicable diseases. Epidemiology. Epidemiologie. Infektionskrankheit. Communicable Diseases > epidemiology. Epidemiologic Methods.
Physical Description:	xii, 233 pages ; 27 cm
Format:	Book

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.