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The origins of contemporary epidemiological theory can be traced back to the early part of the 20th century. Just prior to this period the mechanisms by which infectious disease agents spread within populations had been revealed by microbiological research, notably that of Pasteur and Koch, and this, together with a statistical familiarity with epidemiological data (particularly the geometry of the epidemic curve (Farr, 1840; Brownlee, 1906)), laid the groundwork for future developments.
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Anderson, R.M. (1982). Directly transmitted viral and bacterial infections of man. In: Anderson, R.M. (eds) The Population Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: Theory and Applications. Population and Community Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2901-3_1
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