meningococcus in English

noun
1
a bacterium involved in some forms of meningitis and cerebrospinal infection.
The illness is caused by bacteria, called meningococci , which invade the linings of the brain, causing severe inflammation that can be fatal.

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1. For example, in the UK babies are vaccinated against group C Meningococcus as part of their routine immunisation programme.

2. 5 The epidemic meninges epidemic sentiment processing plan epidemic meninges inflammation (i. e. epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis),(www.Sentencedict.com) is the suppurative meningitis which the meningococcus cause.

3. BCG – Bacillus Calmette Guérin; Chol-Ecol-O – cholera-E.coli-oral; DTaP-IPV-Hib – diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, acellular pertussis, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type b, pediatric formulation; HA – hepatitis A; HB – hepatitis B; Inf – influenza; IPV – inactivated poliomyelitis virus; JE – Japanese encephalitis; Men – meningococcus; MMR – measles, mumps, rubella; Pneu – pneumococcus; Rab – rabies; TBE – tickborne encephalitis; Tdap – tetanus toxoid, diphtheria toxoid, acellular pertussis, adult formulation; Typh-I – typhoid-injection; Typh-O – typhoid-oral; Var – varicella; YF – yellow fever Adjuvant: