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8 November, 2009
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Further information related to this fact sheet: Meningococcal disease.

 
 
 

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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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