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Immunology of Neisseria meningitidis

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Immunology of Human Infection

Part of the book series: Comprehensive Immunology ((COMIMUN,volume 8))

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Meningococcal disease has been a worldwide problem for many centuries. The meningococcus, Neisseria meningitidis, first described by Weichselbaum in 1887, is a gram-negative, kidney-bean-shaped organism found both intraand extracellularly.

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Lepow, M.L., Gold, R. (1981). Immunology of Neisseria meningitidis . In: Nahmias, A.J., O’Reilly, R.J. (eds) Immunology of Human Infection. Comprehensive Immunology, vol 8. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1009-9_6

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