VP 516/CHLH 516                       Infectious Disease Epidemiology

      Readings for Review of Epidemiology - Jan. 2006

1. Le Riche, W.H. and Milner, J. 1971. Epidemiology as Medical Ecology.
    Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh. 460 pp. Read pages 108-129.

2. Fuxa, J.R. and Tanada, Y. 1987. Epizootiology of Insect Diseases.
    John Wiley and Sons, New York. 555 pp. Read pages 3-19.

3. Fredricks D.N. and Relman, D.A.. 1996. Sequence-based evidence of microbial disease causation:
     when Koch postulates don't fit.  The Journal of Research 8: 39-44.

4. Koopman, J. 1996. Emerging objectives and methods in epidemiology.
    American Journal of Public Health 86(5) 630-632.

For those who would like a whirl-wind review of very basic epidemiology and biostatistics:
1. DL Streiner, C Geoffrey, R Norman, Heather Munroe Blum. PDQ Epidemiology, B.C. Decker Inc. 1989.

2.. GR Norman and DL Streiner. PDQ Statistics, B.C. Decker Inc., Philadelphia, 1986.

If you never had any epidemiology, you may also want to visit:

http://www.doh.wa.gov/EHSPHL/CHS/Vista/Review_of_basic_epidemiology.htm#Epidemiology

and

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/collections/epidem/epid.shtml

and other resources listed in: http://www.epidemiolog.net

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