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Research on improving varidity in investigations of food-borne disease outbreak(Division of Biological and Human Environment)

◆Research project on securement of food safety and reliability
◆Leader: Prof. TSUDA Toshihide
◆Period: 2008-

In a disease outbreak, such as food-borne and infectious disease, we have to identify source and transmission of the outbreak and to prevent further transmission as soon as possible. We may also prevent disease outbreaks in other settings when reporting the present outbreak precisely. A set of techniques in epidemiologic field investigation is known as "Outbreak Epidemiology" or "Field Epidemiology". ,which are basic components for national centers for disease control. In the Okayama University Graduate School of Environmental Science, we train up epidemiologists who can also conduct investigation in the field setting using the latter program.
Research on improving varidity in investigations of food-borne disease outbreak(Division of Biological and Human Environment)