TY - BOOK AU - Giesecke,Johan TI - Modern infectious disease epidemiology SN - 9781138704633 AV - RA651 .G54 2017 U1 - 614.4 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press, KW - Communicable Diseases KW - epidemiology KW - Epidemiologic Methods N1 - 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; public health ER -