Meningococcus Definition

Meningococcus Sentence Examples

• Meningococcemia is the presence of meningococcus in the bloodstream.

• Meningococcus, a bacteria formally called Neisseria meningitidis, can be one of the most dramatic and rapidly fatal of all infectious diseases.

• Although a vaccine is available for meningococcus, it is still difficult as of 2004 to produce a vaccine for the type B organism, the most common one in the United States.