Australia's century of meningococcal disease: development and the changing ecology of an accidental pathogen

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2007

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Patel, Mahomed

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Australasian Medical Association

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• Trends in meningococcal disease (MD) over the 20th century in Australia, as in other industrialised countries, have been characterised by epidemics during the two World Wars, a transient rise in incidence in the 1950s followed by endemic disease, and

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Keywords: Meningococcus vaccine; article; Australia; bacterial strain; bacterial transmission; bacterial virulence; cloning; cost effectiveness analysis; disease course; drug cost; drug monitoring; ecology; epidemic; geographic distribution; health care policy; his

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Medical Journal of Australia

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2037-12-31