Life course epidemiology and infectious diseases

Life course epidemiology and infectious diseases.

There has been a traditional view that divided epidemiology into infectious and chronic diseases. Since we now know that at least 15% of cancers worldwide are caused by infections, 1 that infections frequently have a natural history lasting decades and that the same epidemiological methods can be applied to both infectious and non-infectious diseases, this view can be considered purely historic...

Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

Depending on intensity and extent occurrence of infectious diseases can be distinguished accordingly: Sporadic – isolated cases of disease without obvious epidemiological connections Epidemical – mass occurrence of infectious disease in mutual epidemiological connection taking place in a limited territory for a certain amount of time. When two or more cases of disease occur in one family or hou...

Molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases

Molecular epidemiology (ME) is a branch of epidemiology developed by merging molecular biology into epidemiological studies. In this paper, the authors try to discuss the ways that molecular epidemiology studies identify infectious diseases' causation and pathogenesis, and unravel infectious agents' sources, reservoirs, circulation pattern, transmission pattern, transmission probability, and tr...

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The epidemiology of infectious diseases of livestock.

From the time of the first modern studies of infectious diseases, by Koch, Pasteur, Theiler and their colleagues, it has been clear that laboratory investigation must be complemented by epidemiologic investigation. The measurement of all aspects of the natural history of a disease in naturally affected populations is necessary if we are to rationally design control regimens. Building upon a his...