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020 _a9781444180022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
060 _aWC 100
_b.M63 2017
100 _aGiesecke, Johan,
245 0 _aModern infectious disease epidemiology /
_cJohan Giesecke.
250 _aThird edition.
260 _aBoca Raton, FL :
_bCRC Press,
_c[2017]
300 _axii, 233 pages :
_billustrations
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aWhat 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.
650 _aCommunicable Diseases
650 _aEpidemiologic Methods
942 _bDMC
_cBK
999 _c15309
_d15309