Epidemiology investigates the occurrence and distribution of diseases within the population. Moreover, molecular biology techniques are used in molecular epidemiology.
Detailed description
Epidemiologists use mainly statistical methods to make statements about the incidence of a disease in a population or to simulate the spread of an epidemic with models. Molecular epidemiology gains insights from the molecular properties of a human or a pathogen.
Researchers from the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at the University of Cologne have conducted a study on the carbapenem-resistant bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii. The pathogen was
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