Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in New Zealand, 2010
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in New Zealand, 2010
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in New Zealand, 2010
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSPublic Health Unit staff for provision of notification data for their regions.Diagnostic microbiology laboratories throughout <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> who participate <strong>in</strong> the nationallaboratory-based surveillance of <strong>in</strong>vasive pneumococcal disease by referr<strong>in</strong>g isolates to ESR.Barbara Bowen, Ushma Desai and Er<strong>in</strong> Higg<strong>in</strong>s, ESR Antibiotic Reference Laboratory, forantimicrobial susceptibility test<strong>in</strong>g; Heather Davies, ESR <strong>Invasive</strong> Pathogens Laboratory, forserotyp<strong>in</strong>g data; Esther Lim, ESR Health Group, for help with the <strong>in</strong>vasive pneumococcaldisease notification data; and Tim Wood, ESR Health Group, for help with the analysis of theNational Immunisation Register data.<strong>Invasive</strong> pneumococcal disease September 2011<strong>in</strong> NZ, <strong>2010</strong>