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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on March 20, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 167(8):1014-1015; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn045
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

BOOK REVIEW

Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice, Second Edition

By Kenrad E. Nelson and Carolyn F. Masters Williams

Nancy Padian

Women's Global Health Imperative, Research Triangle Institute International, San Francisco, CA 94104-3812

(e-mail: npadian@rti.org)

ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-2879-3, ISBN-10: 0-7637-2879-9, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts (Telephone: 978-443-5000, Fax: 978-443-8000, World Wide Web: http://www.jbpub.com), 2007, 1,207 pp., $124.95 (hardcover)

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With commendable due diligence to the ever-changing field of infectious diseases, Drs. Nelson and Williams (1) have updated the first edition of their book (2) to reflect new developments such as bioterrorism, severe acute respiratory syndrome, and the epidemiology of several other infections such as West Nile virus and monkey pox. Indeed, they have accomplished an almost impossible task: a far-reaching review of infectious disease epidemiology including state-of-the-art chapters on methodological issues, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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