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Infection and immunity
Infection and immunity

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References

Week 1
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015) 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa – case counts [Online]. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/case-counts.html (Accessed 21 October 2015).
Chatterjee, P. (2009) ‘India’s ongoing war against rabies’, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol. 87, no. 12, pp. 890–1.
Post-Polio Health International, (n.d.) Incidence rates of poliomyelitis in other countries [Online]. Available at http://www.post-polio.org/ir-usa.html (Accessed 16 November 2014).
Spellberg, B., Guidos, R., Gilbert, D., Bradley, J., Boucher, H. W., Scheld, W. M., Bartlett, J. G., Edwards Jr, J. and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2008) ‘The epidemic of antibiotic-resistant infections: A call to action for the medical community from the Infectious Diseases Society of America’, Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 155–64.
WHO (2014) Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance [Online] Available at http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/112647/1/WHO_HSE_PED_AIP_2014.2_eng.pdf (Accessed 06 November 2014).
Week 2
Engels, F. (1969 [1845]) The Condition of the Working Class in England, (trans. Institute of Marxism-Leninism, Moscow, 1892), London, Panther Books, reprinted in Health and Disease: A Reader (2001, 3rd edn), Davey, Gray and Seale (eds), Buckingham, Open University Press.
Henao-Restrepo, A. M, Longini, I. M., Egger, M., Dean, N. E., Edmunds, W. J., Camacho, A., Carroll, M. W., Doumbia, M., Draguez, B., Duraffour, S., Enwere, G., Grais, R., Gunther, S., Hossmann, S., Kondé, M. K., Kone, S., Kuisma, E., Levine, M. M., Mandal, S., Norheim, G., Riveros, X., Soumah, A., Trelle, S., Vicari, A. S., Watson, C. H., Kéïta, S., Kieny, M. P. and Røttingen, J. A. (2015) ‘Efficacy and effectiveness of an rVSV-vectored vaccine expressing Ebola surface glycoprotein: interim results from the Guinea ring vaccination cluster-randomised trial’, The Lancet, 3 August [Online]. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61117-5 (Accessed 3 August 2015).
The UK’s Faculty of Public Health (n.d.) What is public health [Online]. Available at http://www.fph.org.uk/what_is_public_health (Accessed 16 November 2014).
Week 3
Ndimubanzi, P. C., Carabin, H., Budke, C. M., Nguyen, H., Qian, Y.-J., Rainwater, E., Dickey, M., Reynolds, S. and Stoner, J. A. (2010) ‘A systematic review of the frequency of neurocysticercosis with a focus on people with epilepsy’, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, vol. 4, no. 11, e870.
Post-Polio Health International, (n.d.) Incidence rates of poliomyelitis in other countries [Online]. Available at http://www.post-polio.org/ir-usa.html (Accessed 16 November 2014).
RTS,S Clinical Trials Partnership (2012) ‘A phase 3 trial of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in African infants’, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 367, no. 24, pp. 2284–95.
Woolhouse, M. E. J. and Gowtage-Sequeria, S. (2005) ‘Host range and emerging and re-emerging pathogens’, Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 11, no. 12, pp. 1842–7.
Week 4
Public Health Wales (2013) Outbreak of measles in Wales Nov 2012 – July 2013, Report of the Agencies which responded to the outbreak, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Powys Health Board, Hywel Dda Health Board and Public Health Wales [Online]. Available at http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/888/page/66389 (Accessed 26 November 2014).
RTS,S Clinical Trials Partnership (2012) ‘A phase 3 trial of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in African infants’, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 367, no. 24, pp. 2284–95.
WHO News release (2014) WHO warns that progress towards eliminating measles has stalled – 2015 targets will not be met, 13 November [Online]. Available at http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/eliminating-measles/en/ (Accessed 26 November 2014).
Wiysonge, C. S., Uthman, O. A., Ndumbe, P. M. and Hussey, G. D. (2012) ‘Individual and contextual factors associated with low childhood immunisation coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel analysis’, PLoS One, vol. 7, no. 5, e37905.