Meningococcus is the most common cause of bacterial meningitis worldwide. And as the recent outbreak in the United States shows, it can be life-threatening. Health authorities in the US state of ...

Neisseria meningitidis, also called meningococcus, is a bacterium responsible for meningitis and septicemia. Its most serious form, purpura fulminans, is often fatal. This bacterium, which is ...

MENINGOCOCCAL infections have been a relatively minor cause of morbidity and mortality during the past decade when compared with other major infectious diseases. In certain segments of the population, ...

Meningococci are life-threatening bacteria responsible for causing diseases like meningitis (an infection of the thin lining that protects the brain and spinal cord) and sepsis (a dangerous condition ...

A team of scientists from the Institut Pasteur has used the database of the National Reference Center for Meningococci to trace the evolution of invasive meningococcal disease cases in France between ...

Researchers recently performed phylogenetic analysis on 155 meningococcal B samples collected in Italy from 2014 to 2017. The results of the analysis showed that high percentages of randomly chosen ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Neisseria meningitidis is a gram-negative diplococcus, which like all gram-negative bacteria, possesses a ...

During the past year, 11 US patients have presented with drug-resistant meningitis, according to a Health Alert Network health advisory from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In the US state of Virginia, health authorities have registered a "statewide meningococcal outbreak." Since June 2022, 30 people have fallen ill —three times more than normal within such a period, it ...