BookAlexander Kramer, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Klaus Krickeberg, editors.
Contents:
Part 1. Challenges
The Global Burden of Infectious Diseases / Paulo Pinheiro, Colin D. Mathers and Alexander Krämer
Global Challenges of Infectious Disease Epidemiology / Alexander Krämer and Md. Mobarak Hossain Khan
Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases / Thomas Löscher and Luise Prüfer-Krämer
Infectious Disease Control Policies and the Role of Governmental and Intergovernmental Organisations / Gérard Krause
Part 2. General concepts and methods
Principles of Infectious Disease Epidemiology / Alexander Krämer, Manas Akmatov and Mirjam Kretzschmar
Social Risk Factors / Klaus Krickeberg and David Klemperer
Molecular Typing and Clustering Analysis as a Tool for Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases / Sylvia M. Bruisten and Leo Schouls
Epidemiologic Surveillance / Ralf Reintjes and Klaus Krickeberg
Outbreak Investigations / Ralf Reintjes and Aryna Zanuzdana
Geographic Information Systems / Patrick Hostert and Oliver Gruebner
Methods and Concepts of Epidemiology / Rafael Mikolajczyk
Mathematical Models in Infectious Disease Epidemiology / Mirjam Kretzschmar and Jacco Wallinga
Immunity to Infectious Diseases / Timo Ulrichs
Principles and Practice of Vaccinology / Richard Pebody and Mirjam Kretzschmar
Health Economics of Infectious Diseases / Robert Welte, Reiner Leidl, Wolfgang Greiner and Maarten Postma
Part 3. Epidemiology of particular infectious diseases
Airborne Transmission: Influenza and Tuberculosis / Timo Ulrichs
Infectious Childhood Diarrhea in Developing Countries / Charles P. Larson, Lars Henning, Stephen Luby and Asg Faruque
Bloodborne and Sexual Transmission: HIV/AIDS / Charlotte van den Berg, Karen Lindenburg and Roel Coutinho
Blood Borne and Sexual Transmission: Hepatitis B and C / Freke Zuure, Susan Hahné, Thijs van de Laar, Maria Prins and Jim van Steenbergen
Sexual Transmission: Chlamydia trachomatis / Robert E. Johnson and Stuart M. Berman
Vector-Borne Transmission: Malaria, Dengue, and Yellow Fever / Tomas Jelinek
Nosocomial Transmission: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) / M.J.M. Bonten and M.C.J. Bootsma
Infectious Diseases and Cancer: HPV / Helen Trottier and Eduardo L. Franco.