Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology

What is special about infectious disease epidemiology?; definitions; the concept of risk - attack rate; the case-control study - odds and odds ratios - confounding; the cohort study - rates - bias; some statistical procedures that are often used in epidemiology; clinical epidemiology - sensitivity, specificity, misclassification; multivariate analysis - interaction; survival analysis; mathematical models for epidemics; the detection and analysis of outbreaks; routine surveillance; measuring infectivity; studying the natural history of infectious diseases; seroepidemiology; the study of contact patterns; methods to decide whether or not an illness is infectious; the epidemiology of vaccination; the epidemiology of HIV infection and AIDS.