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School of Medicine
- Epidemiology and Community Health
- EPID 621 Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: PMCH 571. This course will discuss the origins of epidemiology and how epidemiology methods are continually applied to the study of communicable diseases. Several infectious diseases will be studied in depth to show the progression toward characterization of the natural history of the diseases and how policies regarding prevention have been defined. Smallpox, HIV/AIDS, the hepatitis family of agents and a vector-borne disease will be studied. In addition, the topic of antibiotic resistance will be covered in depth. How the epidemiology of an infectious agent relates to bioterrorism also will be discussed.