Neisseria meningitidis, often referred to as meningococcus, is a bacterium that can cause meningitis and other forms of meningococcal disease such as meningococcemia, a life-threatening sepsis. N. meningitidis is a major cause of illness and death during childhood in industrialized countries and has been responsible for epidemics in Africa and in ...
A species of gram-negative, aerobic bacteria found in cerebrospinal fluid as the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis (meningitis, meningococcal) as well as in venereal discharges and blood. ... (12 Dec 1998) ... 
pneumonia meningococcal pneumonia.
Type: Term Definitions: 1. a bacterial species found in the nasopharynx of humans but not in other animals; the causative agent of meningococcal meningitis and meningicoccemia; virulent organisms are strongly gram negative and occur singly or in pairs; in the latter case the cocci are elongated and are arranged with long axes parallel and facing si...
(aka meningococcus) A bacterium that causes meningitis, as well as infections elsewhere in the body.
the bacterium that causes meningococcal disease