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.