Contents: 1. Introduction to veterinary epidemiology. 2. Ecological concepts of epidemiology. 3. Components of epidemiology. 4. Epidemiology: types and methods. 5. The cause of disease (disease process). 6. Causal hypothesis. 7. Agent, host and environmental strategies of epidemiology. 8. Pattern of diseases. 9. The transmission of infection. 10. Maintenance of infection. 11. Epidemiological studies. 12. The control and eradication of diseases. 13. Sources of epidemiological data. 14. Scales or levels of measurement. 15. Evaluation of diagnostic tests. 16. Epidemiological measurements. 17. Measure of productions. 18. Measurement of causal association. 19. Principles of survey. 20. Mapping. 21. Disease outbreak investigation. 22. Epidemiological software. 23. Animal disease forecasting. 24. Economics of animal diseases. 25. OIE (office international des epizooties).
