TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giesecke,Johan
TI  - Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology
SN  - 9780340764237
AV  - RA651 .G54 2002
U1  - 614.4 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London, New York, New York, NY
PB  - Arnold, Distributed in the USA by Oxford University Press
KW  - Communicable diseases
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Communicable Diseases
KW  - Epidemiologic Methods
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ch. 1. What is special about infectious disease epidemiology? -- Ch. 2. Definitions -- Ch. 3. Descriptive epidemiology -- Ch. 4. Risk, relative risk and attack rate -- Ch. 5. The case-control study: odds, odds ratios -- the concept of confounding -- Ch. 6. The cohort study: rates -- the concept of bias -- Ch. 7. Some statistical procedures that are often used in epidemiology -- Ch. 8. Clinical epidemiology: sensitivity, specificity, misclassification -- Ch. 9. Multivariate analysis and interaction -- Ch. 10. Survival analysis -- Ch. 11. Mathematical models for epidemics -- Ch. 12. Detection and analysis of outbreaks -- Ch. 13. Routine surveillance of infectious diseases -- Ch. 14. Measuring infectivity -- Ch. 15. Studying the natural history of infectious diseases -- Ch. 16. Seroepidemiology -- Ch. 17. The study of contact patterns -- Ch. 18. Methods for deciding whether or not an illness is infectious -- Ch. 19. The epidemiology of vaccination; Ch. 20. The epidemiology of AIDS and variant CJD -- Ch. 21. Further reading
N2  - Written from an infectius disease perspective throughout, this book aims to teach epidemiology to those with a background in this field. Divided into two parts, the first covers the tools of epidemiology and the second covers the role of contact pattern from an assessment angle
ER  -