meningococci

Many people have meningococci in their throat yet do not become ill.

But meningococci, the bacteria that are a cause of both meningitis and other serious health problems, bring chaos disproportionate to the low case numbers.

One of the mysteries of the disease is that many people carry meningococci in their throats without becoming ill.

If used widely among college students, the vaccine is expected to prevent from 14 to 26 cases and up to three deaths from meningococci each year.

Meningococci only infect humans and have never been isolated from animals because the bacterium cannot get iron other than from human sources (transferrin and lactoferrin).

Most meningococci from groups B and C, as well as gonococci, have been shown to have this trisaccharide as part of their LOS structure.

Meningitis caused by H. influenzae and meningococci has a better prognosis than cases caused by group B streptococci, coliforms and S. pneumonia.

Brain-heart infusion broth (BHI broth or ""BHIB"") is a highly nutritious general-purpose growth medium for culturing fastidious and nonfastidious microorganisms, such as streptococci, pneumococci and meningococci.