TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giesecke,Johan
TI  - Modern infectious disease epidemiology
SN  - 0340764236
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London
PB  - Arnold
KW  - Communicable diseases
KW  - Epidemiologic methods
KW  - Epidemiology
N1  - 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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