Epidemiology of infectious diseases

This textbook of epidemiology is intended for medical students.

The authors are qualified teachers from the Medical Universities in Sofia, Varna and Pleven and are leading specialists in the field of epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious, socially significant diseases.

The textbook was developed after updating the previous textbook, published in 1993 under the editorship of Associate Professor Petar Georgiev, PhD.

In accordance with the student training program and modern scientific knowledge of epidemiology on a global scale, the textbook examines both general and specific epidemiology of infectious diseases and some of the socially significant mass diseases.
Classic infectious diseases are represented by the modern level of epidemiological surveillance, and this allows students to specifically indicate and study the mandatory strategy for prevention and combating them.

The authors formulate the meaning, theory and subject of the epidemiology of infectious diseases and consider the methodological possibilities for population research of all mass diseases, indicating the tasks of the so-called noninfectious epidemiology. The textbook examines individual nosological diseases, in the genesis of which infection is a key mechanism for the body's readiness to fall ill.
The authors believe that they have achieved their main objectives in writing this textbook, and it will be useful to medical students as well as to a wider range of readers. They will gratefully accept any comments and suggestions for its improvement.
From the authors

• Epidemiology of
• infectious diseases