Applications of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Tools in Microbiology of Infectious Diseases

• Main Author: Julio Alvarez (auth)
• Other Authors: Andres Perez (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); modeling; Quantitative Methods; diagnosis; Epidemiology; stem; Pathogen Detection
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Epidemiology is a discipline intended to systematically investigate, and ideally quantify, disease dynamics in populations (Perez, 2015). Epidemiological assessmentsmay be divided into four large areas, namely, (a) identification and characterization of a pathogen, (b) development of systems for det...