Molecular tools and infectious disease epidemiology /
The application of modern molecular genetic and biologic techniques to infectious disease epidemiology dramatically improves measurement of disease and putative risk factors increasing our ability to detect and track outbreaks, identify risk factors and detect new infectious agents. However, integra...
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Burlington, MA :
Academic Press,
©2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction and historical perspective
- How molecular tools enhance epidemiologic studies
- Applications of molecular tools to infectious disease epidemiology
- A primer of epidemiologic study designs
- A primer of molecular biology
- Molecular tools
- Omics analyses in molecular epidemiologic studies
- Determining the reliability and validity and interpretation of a measure in the study populations
- Designing and implementing a molecular epidemiologic study
- Study conduct
- Think about data analysis when planning a study
- Human and animal subject protection, biorepositories, biosafety considerations, and professional ethics
- Future directions.
