Giesecke, Johan, <br/><br/>
Modern infectious disease epidemiology / 
Johan Giesecke. 
 - Third edition. 
 - Boca Raton, FL :  CRC Press,  [2017] 
 - xii, 233 pages :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781444180022 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Communicable Diseases<br/>Epidemiologic Methods
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WC 100  / .M63 2017