TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giesecke, Johan,
TI  - Modern infectious disease epidemiology
SN  - 9781444180022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Boca Raton, FL
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Communicable Diseases
KW  - Epidemiologic Methods
N1  - 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
ER  -