Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

Description

The study of infections is known as infectious disease epidemiology, which applies techniques and theories to comprehend the distribution and causes of health and disease in this field. This book offers a thorough and condensed review of the topic and discusses relevant specialized fields needed to comprehend the epidemiology of infections. The chapters in the book can be read in order, or readers can delve deeper into specific ideas. It is a useful and succinct manual that offers the fundamental knowledge and ideas utilized in epidemiology and the incredible advancements made in this field due to developments in molecular biology, genomics, statistics, and computing. Some chapters in this book contain basic epidemiologic information, such as those on epidemic investigations, study designs, clinical trials, clinical epidemiology, and fundamental statistical techniques for epidemiology. This book is simple to read and written in thorough but understandable and exact scientific language. This book offers fundamental and fresh ideas in infectious epidemiology and can be used as a reference for epidemiologists and students.