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Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Risk management and communicable disease
Chapter 3 The role of government in controlling communicable diseases
Chapter 4 Laws relating to communicable disease
Chapter 5 Emerging communicable disease
Chapter 6 International responses to communicable diseases
Chapter 7 Surveillance of communicable disease in Australia
Chapter 8 Sanitation and personal hygiene
Chapter 9 Immunisation
Chapter 10 Case-finding, screening, and contact-tracing
Chapter 11 Isolation and quarantine
Chapter 12 Antimicrobial agents
Chapter 13 Investigating outbreaks
Chapter 14 Public communication in the management of an outbreak of communicable disease
Chapter 15 Groups who are vulnerable to infections
Chapter 16 Infections acquired in health-care settings
Chapter 17 International travel
Chapter 18 Military and offensive uses of biological weapons

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