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We shall be employing the following definition of an infectious disease, which is short and focuses on the essential:
This lesson describes some concepts and tools needed for understanding and applying the epidemiology of infectious diseases.
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Krickeberg, K., Van Trong, P., Thi My Hanh, P. (2019). Infectious Diseases: Descriptive Epidemiology, Transmission, Surveillance, Control. In: Epidemiology. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16368-6_4
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