Modern infectious disease epidemiology / by Johan Giesecke.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Arnold ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA by Oxford University Press, 2002.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xi, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0340764236
- 362.196 22 GIE
- RA651 .G54 2002
- 2001 O-432
- WC 100
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. What is special about infectious disease epidemiology? -- Ch. 2. Definitions -- Ch. 3. Descriptive epidemiology -- Ch. 4. Risk, relative risk and attack rate -- Ch. 5. The case-control study: odds, odds ratios -- the concept of confounding -- Ch. 6. The cohort study: rates -- the concept of bias -- Ch. 7. Some statistical procedures that are often used in epidemiology -- Ch. 8. Clinical epidemiology: sensitivity, specificity, misclassification -- Ch. 9. Multivariate analysis and interaction -- Ch. 10. Survival analysis -- Ch. 11. Mathematical models for epidemics -- Ch. 12. Detection and analysis of outbreaks -- Ch. 13. Routine surveillance of infectious diseases -- Ch. 14. Measuring infectivity -- Ch. 15. Studying the natural history of infectious diseases -- Ch. 16. Seroepidemiology -- Ch. 17. The study of contact patterns -- Ch. 18. Methods for deciding whether or not an illness is infectious -- Ch. 19. The epidemiology of vaccination Ch. 20. The epidemiology of AIDS and variant CJD -- Ch. 21. Further reading
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