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• 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
• Index