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Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology Concepts, Methods, Mathematical Models, and Public Health /

Hardly a day goes by without news headlines concerning infectious disease threats. Currently the spectre of a pandemic of influenza A|H1N1 is raising its head, and heated debates are taking place about the pro<U+0019>s and con<U+0019>s of vaccinating young girls against human papilloma v...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Krm̃er, Alexander. (Editor), Kretzschmar, Mirjam. (Editor), Krickeberg, Klaus. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
Series:Statistics for Biology and Health,
Subjects:
Statistics.
Medicine.
Emerging infectious diseases.
Cartography.
Statistical methods.
Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.
Infectious Diseases.
Biostatistics.
Biomedicine general.
Quantitative Geography.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93835-6
Table of Contents:
  • The global burden of infectious diseases (Pinheiro, Mathers, Krm̃er)
  • Global challenges for infectious disease epidemiology (Krm̃er, Khan)
  • Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (Ls̲cher, Pr<U+00fc>fer-Krm̃er)
  • Infectious disease control policies and the role of governmental and intergovernmental organizations (Krause)
  • Principles of infectious disease epidemiology (Akmatov, Krm̃er, Kretzschmar)
  • Social risk factors (Krickeberg, Klemperer)
  • Molecular typing and clustering analysis as a tool for epidemiology of infectious diseases (Bruisten et al.)
  • Epidemiological surveillance (Krickeberg, Reintjes)
  • Outbreak investigations (Reintjes, Zanuzdana)
  • Geographic information systems (Hostert, Gr<U+00fc>bner)
  • Methods and concepts of the epidemiology of infectious diseases (Mykolajczyk)
  • Mathematical models in infectious disease epidemiology (Kretzschmar, Wallinga)
  • Immunity to infectious diseases (Ulrichs)
  • Principles and practice of vaccinology (Pebody)
  • Health economics of infectious diseases (Welte)
  • Airborne transmission: influenza and tuberculosis (Ulrichs)
  • Infectious childhood diarrhoea in developing countries (Larson)
  • Bloodborne and sexual transmission: HIV/AIDS (van den Berg, Lindenburg, Coutinho)
  • Bloodborne and sexual transmission: hepatitis B and C (Zuure, Hahne)
  • Sexual transmission: Chlamydia trachomatis (Johnson, Berman)
  • Vectorborne transmission: malaria, dengue, and yellow fever (Jelinek)
  • Nosocomial transmission: Meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (Bonten, Bootsma)
  • Eight infectious diseases and cancer: a human papillomavirus (HPV) (Franco, Trottier).

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