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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 154, No. 7 : 682-683
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases - Edited by R. C. Andrew Thompson

Lee W. Riley

Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720

A bibliographic search of the BIOSIS database (BIOSIS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) covering the period 1993–2001 identified 1,018 articles whose titles contain the words "molecular epidemiology." When the category for these articles was restricted to "infectious diseases," the search found 163 (16 percent) articles. The same search covering the period 1985–1992 identified 46 (15 percent) infectious-disease-related articles among 299 that deal with the topic of molecular epidemiology. While most published studies that include molecular epidemiology topics focus on cancer epidemiology (1Go), the editor of this recently published book is clearly accurate when he states in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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