Al Suwayyid, Barakat A.
Coombs, Geoffrey W.
Speers, David J.
Pearson, Julie
Wise, Michael J.
Kahler, Charlene M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
King Abdullah Scholarship program
National Health and Medical Research Council (APP1078642)
Article History
Received: 6 October 2017
Accepted: 20 February 2018
First Online: 27 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: In Australia, gonorrhoea is a notifiable infectious disease. De-identified patient samples are sent to the state-based reference laboratory, PathWest, for analysis during routine clinical care. Routine surveillance data is collected by the West Australian Department of Health from patient records and includes site of isolation, date of sample collection and postcode. The linkage of routine surveillance data with the bacterial isolate does not require patient permission since it does not result in the disclosure of data that could identify the patient. The research project was assessed by the UWA Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and has the approval number RA/4/20/4010.
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