Immunoepidemiology--bridging the gap between immunology and epidemiology.
'Immunoepidemiology' combines individual- and population-oriented approaches to create new perspectives. It examines how inter-individual differences in immune responses affect the population dynamics of micro- and macro-parasites to produce the epidemiological patterns of infection observed in heterogeneous host populations. Here, I discuss how research has only just begun to tap the potential of this integrative discipline that incorporates immunology, parasitology, genetics, epidemiology, ecology, mathematical modelling and statistics.
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Zoological Museum, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland. barhell@zool.unizh.ch
D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006373:Helminthiasis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology*