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Giesecke, Johan,

Modern infectious disease epidemiology / Johan Giesecke. - Third edition. - Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2017. - xii, 233 pages ; 24cm

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.



ISBN: 9781138704633 9781444180022 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2016042511

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Communicable Diseases--epidemiology
Epidemiologic Methods

LC Class. No.: RA651 / .G54 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 614.4

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WC 100