(from the article `meningococcus`) the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, which causes meningococcal meningitis in humans, who are the only natural hosts in which it causes disease. ... The term meningitis is often applied to meningococcal meningitis, which is caused by N. meningitidis. Epidemics of this disease occurred at irregular .....
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An acute infectious disease affecting children and young adults, caused by Neisseria meningitidis; characterised by nasopharyngeal catarrh, headache, vomiting, convulsions, stiffness in the neck (nuchal rigidity), photophobia, constipation, cutaneous hyperesthesia, a purpuric or herpetic eruption, and the presence of Kernig's sign. Fulminant form m...
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an acute type of bacterial meningitis caused by infection with Neisseria meningitidis. It usually appears in epidemics, and symptoms are those of acute cerebral and spinal meningitis, usually with seropurulent meningeal irritation and an eruption of red spots on the skin. A hemorrhagic complication that sometimes occurs is call...
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. an acute infectious disease of children and young adults, caused by Neisseria meningitidis and characterized by fever, headache, photophobia, vomiting, nuchal rigidity, seizures, coma, and a purpuric eruption. Even in the absence of meningitis, meningococcemia can induce toxic phenomena such as vasculitis, disseminated in...
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Meningococcal meningitis: Inflammation of the meninges (the membranes covering of the brain and spinal cord) due to infection with the meningococcus bacterium Neisseria meningitidis. Meningococcal meningitis typically starts like the flu with the sudden onset of an intense headache, fever, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and malaise. But, unlike the ...
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bacterial infection caused by Neisseria meningitidis that results in an inflammation of the meninges
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Meningitis caused by bacteria called meningococci {meningococcal bacteria)
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severe swelling of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord (meninges) caused by Neisseria meningitidis
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