Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early history of infectious disease: epidemiology and control of infectious disease -- Epidemiology of infectious diseases: general principles -- Study design -- Surveillance -- Outbreak epidemiology -- Mathematical modeling: the dynamics of infection -- Geographic information systems -- Microbiology tools for the epidemiologist -- Molecular epidemiology and infectious diseases -- The immune system and host defense against infections -- Vaccines: past, present, and future -- Nutrition and infection -- Emerging and new infectious diseases -- Nosocomial infections -- Epidemiology and prevention of influenza -- Measles -- Global epidemiology of meningococcal infections -- Tuberculosis -- The epidemiology of acute respiratory infections -- Diarrheal diseases -- Human immunodeficiency virus infections and the acquired immune deficiency syndrome -- Viral hepatitis -- Sexually transmitted diseases -- Emerging vector-borne diseases -- Lyme disease -- The epidemiology and control of malaria -- Epidemiology of helminth infections.