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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, 2007 (2011), Communicable Disease - Prevention and Control, Department of Health Victoria. More information here.
• Orr, HJ, Gray, SJ, Macdonald, M & Stuart, JM 2003, ‘Saliva and meningococcal transmission’, 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, Communicable Diseases Network Australia. More information here.
• Communicable Diseases Network Australia 2004, ‘Changes to the management of meningococcal disease in Australia’, Communicable Disease Intelligence, vol. 28, pp. 278–9. More information here.
• Australian Immunisation Handbook – 9th Edition 2008, Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Government. More information here.
• Meningococcal group C disease – immunisation information, Department of Health Victoria. More information here.
• Meningococcal disease, World Health Organization. More information here.



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