TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giesecke,Johan
TI  - Modern infectious disease epidemiology
SN  - 9780340764237
AV  - RA651 .G54 2002
U1  - 614.4 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London, New York, New York, NY
PB  - Arnold, Distributed in the USA by Oxford University Press
KW  - Communicable diseases
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Communicable Diseases
KW  - Epidemiologic Methods
N1  - 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
N2  - Written from an infectious disease perspective throughout, this book aims to teach epidemiology to those with a background in this field. Divided into two parts, the first covers the tools of epidemiology and the second covers the role of contact pattern from an assessment angle
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0614/2002284687-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0614/2002284687-t.html
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