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Etymologia: Meningococcal Disease - Volume 23, Number 7—July 2017 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal - CDC

Etymologia: Meningococcal Disease - Volume 23, Number 7—July 2017 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal - CDC



Volume 23, Number 7—July 2017

Etymologia

Etymologia: Meningococcal Disease

Ronnie HenryComments to Author 

Meningococcal [mə-ningʺgo-kokʹal] Disease

Thumbnail of Areas with frequent epidemics of meningococcal meningitis. Data source:  World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2012.
Figure. Areas with frequent epidemics of meningococcal meningitis. Data source:  World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2012.
From the Greek meninx (“membrane”) + kokkos (“berry”), meningococcal disease was first described by Vieusseux during an outbreak in Geneva in 1805. In 1884, Italian pathologists Ettore Marchiafava and Angelo Celli described intracellular micrococci in cerebrospinal fluid, and in 1887, Anton Wiechselbaum identified the meningococcus (designated as Diplococcus intracellularis meningitidis) in cerebrospinal fluid and established the connection between the organism and epidemic meningitis. Meningococcus can cause endemic cases, clusters, and epidemics of meningitis and septicemia (Figure).

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Cite This Article

DOI: 10.3201/eid2307.ET2307

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