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Meningococcal disease.
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Victorian Government Health Information, Australia.
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Immunise Australia Program.
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Meningitis Foundation of America.
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Support groups
Meningococcal Australia Inc.
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References used for this fact sheet
- Meningitis Research Foundation (United Kingdom) Homepage. More information here.
- Surveillance of notifiable infectious diseases in Victoria, 2005 (2007) [online], Public Health Branch, Department of Human Services, Victorian Government. Mroe information here.
- Orr, H. J., Gray, S. J., Macdonald, M. and Stuart, J. M. (2003), ‘Saliva and meningococcal transmission’, in Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 9, pp. 1314–15. More information here.
- Guidelines for the early clinical and public health management of meningococcal disease in Australia, Revised edition (2007) [online], Communicable Diseases Network Australia. More information here.
- Communicable Diseases Network Australia (2004), ‘Changes to the management of meningococcal disease in Australia’, in Communicable Disease Intelligence, vol. 28, pp. 278–9.
- Australian Immunisation Handbook – 9th Edition 2008, [online], Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Government. More information here.
- Meningococcal group C Disease – immunisation information [online], Department of Human Services, Victorian Government. More information here.
- Meningococcal disease [online], World Health Organization. More information here.
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Last updated: September 2008
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