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RESEARCH ARTICLE

A history of human quarantine in Australia: settlement to 1980

Diane Lightfoot
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Convener of the History SIG, Australian Society for Microbiology. Email: dlightfoot2@bigpond.com

Microbiology Australia 41(4) 175-177 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA20048
Published: 16 October 2020

Abstract

Quarantine has been widely used for infection control in Australia since the time of settlement by Europeans. The history of human quarantine stations in Australia is discussed briefly here.


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