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Epidemiology

General Resources

University of Sydney Library Catalogue
Some recommended subject headings on the University of Sydney Library Catalogue appear below. Please check all related subject headings for comprehensive results.

• veterinary epidemiology
• communicable diseases in animals
• veterinary clinical epidemiology
• epidemiology

WWWeb Epidemiology and Evidence-based Medicine Sources for Veterinarians
Compiled by John M. Gay, DVM, PhD, DACVPM, ACE, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University. Resources include online texts and courses, organisational, governmental and biostatistical data sources and web sites. The entries have been selected for veterinary students and practitioners, and the emphasis is on academic materials.

Veterinary Epidemiology: An Introduction (.pdf)
A 61 page electronic text, published in 1999, by Dirk Pfeiffer, Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College in the UK. The text includes: basic concepts of veterinary epidemiology, descriptive and analytical epidemiology, sampling of animal populations, interpretation of diagnostic tests, epidemiological animal disease information management and recommended reading. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read this file.

Epidemiology
Another site prepared by John M. Gay at the Washington State University in the USA. The purpose of this site "is to introduce the epidemiologic concepts applicable to understanding disease in animal groups to veterinary students and veterinary practitioners in a self-learning mode."

EpiVetNet
This site is maintained by Dirk Pfeiffer from the Royal Veterinary College in the UK. The site is mirrored at EpiCentre at Massey University, New Zealand. The purpose of the site is to provide "a forum for exchange of information about issues related to veterinary epidemiology in addition to the electronic mailing list EpiVet-L". The site includes links to conferences, contacts, links, mailing lists, publications, reading lists, software, training and a what's new section.

Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary
This resource, created by John M Gay of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, includes sections covering epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, general science, clinical testing, clinical study design and methods, and experimental design and statistics.

A Dictionary of (Ecological) Epidemiology
Edited by Jonathan Swinton, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and a researcher for Proteom, a bioinformatics company.

Active Surveillance for Livestock Diseases - Practical Techniques for Developing Countries
Part of the Survey Toolbox for Livestock Diseases published by AusVet. This is a downloadable guide, in .pdf format, to active surveillance techniques for developed and developing countries by Angus Cameron. Cameron is a graduate of the University of Sydney and a veterinarian with a special interest in epidemiology, surveillance and information systems. The contents of the manual includes: an introduction, background to disease surveys, general principles of animal disease surveillance, sampling, principles of data and specimen collection, village interviews, computerised data management and analysis, survey design and analysis, prevalence surveys, incidence rate surveys and surveys to demonstrate freedom from disease. The notes and appendices contain a glossary of terms, statistical equations, computer programs and example data collection forms.

Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
A multilingual, web based course developed by a team headed by Ronald E LaPorte at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Sections include: epidemiology in general, epidemiology in specific diseases and topics, and biostatistics. Please read the executive summary for more information.

Epidemiology for the Uninitiated
This is the 4th edition of the text by D Coggon PHD, DM, FRCP, FFOM, Geoffrey Rose DM, DSC, FRCP, FFPHM and DJP Barker, PHD, MD, FRCP, FFPHM, FRCOG published on the British Medical Journal web site in 1997. The text is primarily about human epidemiology but includes information about methodology and concepts of interest to veterinary and animal scientists.

Veterinary Informatics and Epidemiology (VIE)
VIE is a joint initiative between the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. It combines areas such as epidemiology, mathematical modeling and statistical analysis to focus on research in animal disease and modeling. This page contains links to web-based modules devoted to specific diseases or follow the link to the "official" VIE homepage for information on current research projects.

Research databases and indexes

Recommended research databases and indexes for this area of study are: BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, MEDLINE, AGRICOLA and Web of Science.