To evade the immune system, the meningococcus generates genetic variants and balances this genome instability with genome repair. Tonje Davidsen and Tone Tønjum review the dynamics of the ...

Meningococcus group B, the most prevalent strain of meningococcal infection, is prevented with 79 per cent effectiveness in children and young adults inoculated with the 4CMenB vaccine, also known ...

Parents of college-bound teens have been asking pointed questions about the vaccine that more colleges are recommending to prevent meningitis in freshmen. The vaccine prevents infection from a type of ...

In Brief Published: 15 November 2013 Bacterial pathogenesis Meningococcus warms up to immune evasion Christina Tobin Kåhrström Nature Reviews Microbiology 11, 818 (2013) Cite this article ...

Meningococcus group B, the most prevalent strain of meningococcal infection, is prevented with 79 per cent effectiveness in children and young adults inoculated with the 4CMenB vaccine, also known as ...

Meningococcus—so-called because of its propensity to involve the meninges, that thin lining surrounding the brain—preferentially attacks teens and young adults.

Meningococcus group B, the most prevalent strain of meningococcal infection, is prevented with 79 per cent effectiveness in children and young adults inoculated with the 4CMenB vaccine, also known ...

Meningococcus is transmitted by secretions, such as sharing glasses or a bottle, or by kissing. This is part of why infections are more common among high school/college kids.

This organism has been found in many isolated cases in which the etiology was obscure. The meningococcus was cultured in the 6 cases of the Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome encountered in this series.

A year-old boy and his two-year-old sister were in stable condition over the weekend after being admitted on Tuesday to Jerusalem's Bikur Holim Hospital with a virulent strain of meningococcus ...