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Infection and immunity
Infection and immunity

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Acknowledgements

This course was written by Basiro Davey, Carol Midgley, Claire Rostron and Daniel Berwick.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit:

Course image: James Gathany/Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Week 1

Figure 1a: Bùi Linh Ngân. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Figure 1b: © iStock.com/nazira_g

Figure 2a: Anthea Sieveking/Wellcome Images

Figure 2b: CDC/Barbara Rice

Figure 3: WHO/TBP/Gary Hampton

Figure 4a: Marshall, J. (2005) ‘Megacity, mega mess’, Nature, vol. 437, Nature Publishing Group

Figure 7: James Gathany/Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Figure 9: Image taken from ‘Clinical Signs’, Virology Department, University of Saskatchewan

Figure 10: © World Health Organization (WHO), 2014. All Rights Reserved

Figure 11a: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, Library of Congress

Figure 11b: © Everett Collection Historical/Alamy

Figure 12: BBC News Magazine

Week 2

Figure 1: Print Collector/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Figure 2: Data derived from Mitchell, B. R. and Deane, P. (1971) Abstract of British Historical Statistics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press; and Dupree, M. W. (1995) Family Structure in the Staffordshire Potteries, 1840–1880, Oxford, Clarendon Press.; based on the Registrar General’s Annual Reports for those years

Figure 3: Data from WHO Global Health Observatory Data Repository (2014) Infant Mortality Data by WHO Region, http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.182?lang=en

Figure 4: Print Collector/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Figure 5a: Aleksandar Todorovic/Shutterstock.com

Figure 5b: Jo Halliday

Figure 6: Wellcome Library, London. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 8: Wellcome Library, London. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 9: Wellcome Library, London. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 10: Wellcome Library, London. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 11: Wellcome Library, London. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 12: James Hicks/CDC

Week 3

Figure 4: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images News/Getty Images/Universal Images Group

Figure 7: DeGiorgio, C. M. et al. (2004) ‘Neurocysticercosis’, Epilepsy Currents, vol. 4, no. 3, pp.107–11, American Epilepsy Society

Figure 8: Andy Crump/TDR/WHO/Science Photo Library

Figure 10a: WHO/TDR/Crump

Figure 11b: World Health Organization

Figure 12: GrahamColm. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Figure 14: Rod Shaw/WEDC, Loughborough University

Figure 15: Deni McIntyre/Photo Researchers/Universal Images Group

Figure 16a: CDC/Dr Erskine Palmer

Figure 16b: CDC/Dr Fred Murphy, Sylvia Whitfield

Figure 17: NIBSC/Science Photo Library

Week 4

Figure 8: Chris Knapton/Science Photo Library/Universal Images Group

Figure 12: Saturn Stills/Science Photo Library/Universal Images Group

Figure 14: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative © Copyright 2010

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