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Scientists sound the alarm over lack of antibiotics
At the 29th Annual Meeting of the Paul Ehrlich Society, researchers, clinicians and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry are therefore making an urgent appeal to the German government to develop economic regulations to enable the development and…
Epidemiology
Epidemiology conducts research on health and disease at the population level – infection epidemiology is concerned with contagious diseases. Their tools and methods are systematic queries, clinical examinations and laboratory diagnostic documentation for both healthy and afflicted individuals, as well as statistical analysis of the compiled data. Causes and risk factors for infections can thus be identified. Infectious diseases epidemiology contributes to the development of preventive measures, early detection and therapy for diseases. Moreover, it examines the efficacy of such measures. Thus epidemiology ties in with scientific findings in basic research as well as medicine, and examines these processes at the population level.
