About one in 10 adults carries the meningococcal bacteria (Neisseria meningitidis). Meningococci are divided into at least 12 so-called serogroups, five of which are the cause of most diseases ...

Meningococci are bacteria that can cause life-threatening meningitis and sepsis. These pathogens use a small protein with a large impact: The RNA-binding protein ProQ is involved in the activation ...

Five people have died, according to a statement from the Department of Health. Meningococci are bacteria that can cause meningitis or sepsis. This can be life-threatening. (CAVALLINI JAMES/BSIP ...

Meningococcus, the leading cause of bacterial meningitis worldwide, poses a severe public health risk. Two-thirds of cases result in meningitis, while sepsis can lead to limb amputation; 10% of ...

In the course of studies on the development of streptomycin resistance by meningococci during subcultures on streptomycin-containing culture plates, Miller and Bohnhoff 1, 2 observed the ...

Meningococci (Neisseria meningitidis) are disease-causing bacteria that cause life-threatening meningitis, or blood poisoning (septicaemia). There are a number of meningococcal variants worldwide, ...

Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute perfected a serum which attacked the meningococci. That was in 1908. Mortality, which before 1908 had been 75%, is now 50%. For the past 27 years the ...

* Director, Medical Department, St. Luke's Hospital, Bluefield, West Virginia; formerly, medical resident, Medical College of Virginia, Hospital Division, and ...

Miller became one of the first scientists during the 1930s to study the biological properties of meningococci and gonococci, the bacteria that cause epidemic meningitis and gonorrhea. He also ...

Since 1 er January 2025, a new vaccination requirement for infants has entered into force against ACWY meningococci and against meningococcus B. Meningococcal C vaccination, already mandatory ...