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References used for this fact sheet
- Meningitis [online], Children’s Hospital Westmead. More information here.
- Meningitis [online], Royal Children’s Hospital. More information here.
- Meningitis [online], The Brain Foundation. More information here.
- What is Meningitis? [online], The Meningitis Centre. More information here.
- Swartz, M. N. (2004), ‘Bacterial meningitis - a view of the past 90 years’ [online], in New England Journal of Medicine, October 28 2004, vol. 351, no. 18, pp 1826–1828. More information here.
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Last updated: October 2008
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