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Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology
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Concise yet comprehensive coverage ensures a thorough and quick understanding of all principles outlinedNumerous practical examples bring the text and the subject to lifeBrings the study of epidemiology into the real world of the infectious disease clinicDoes not assume a comprehensive understanding of statistics but builds from basicsDown to earth yet authoritative and praised for its clarity of styleNumerous simple and practical illustrations further help understanding of the text
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. What Is Special about Infectious Disease Epidemiology?
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Descriptive Epidemiology
- 4. Risk, Relative Risk and Attack Rate
- 5. The Case Control Study: Odds, Odds Ratio – The Concept of Confounding
- 6. The Cohort Study: Rates – The Concept of Bias
- 7. Some Statistical Procedures That Are Often Used in Epidemiology
- 8. Clinical Epidemiology: Sensitivity, Specificity and Misclassification
- 9. Multivariate Analysis and Interaction
- 10. Survival Analysis
- 11. Mathematical Models for Epidemics
- 12. Detection and Analysis of Outbreaks
- 13. Routine Surveillance of Infectious Diseases
- 14. Measuring Infectivity
- 15. Studying the Natural History of Infectious Diseases
- 16. Seroepidemiology
- 17. The Study of Contact Patterns
- 18. Methods to Decide Whether or Not an Illness Is Infectious
- 19. The Epidemiology of Vaccination
- 20. The Use of Subtyping
- 21. Further Reading
- 22. Index