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  "legislation": "eudn/2018/945",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/945 of 22 June 2018 on the communicable diseases and related special health issues to be covered by epidemiological surveillance as well as relevant case definitions (Text with EEA relevance)",
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  "heading": "Laboratory Criteria",
  "text": "At least one of the following four:\nIsolation of Neisseria meningitidis from a normally sterile site, or from purpuric skin lesions\nDetection of Neisseria meningitidis nucleic acid from a normally sterile site, or from purpuric skin lesions\nDetection of Neisseria meningitidis antigen in CSF\nDetection of Gram-negative stained diplococcus in CSF",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:03.598650+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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