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Cover detail from the Office of The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor report Kotahitanga: Uniting Aotearoa against infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance.

Colourised scanning electron micrograph of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria, which causes gonorrhoea. Image credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

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