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Primate diseases
Human diseases and disorders
Disorders causing seizures
Meningitis
Attachments
Meningitis
Parents
Acute pain
Conditions that may be described as brain fever include:
Disorders causing seizures
Inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system
Medical emergencies
Medical triads
Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus)
Children
1937-1945 and 1960s Although sulfa drugs, which were discovered in 1937, were effective as therapy and prophylaxis for meningococcal disease, reports of sulfa-resistant organisms were already emerging by 1945,...
1941-1943? Commission on Meningococcal Meningitis
1963?-1967? Fortunately, military scientists had predicted the problem of drug resistance and had become engaged, by the middle 1960s, in extensive laboratory investigations into the pathogenesis and immunology of N. meningitidis.
Dr. Catlin found that members of the bacterial genus, Neisseria-which 1s a leading cause of meningitis in humans -possess enzymes that attack foreign DNA but do not harm their own.
John B. Robbins
Meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis had been a wellrecognized complication of military mobilizations, whether in or away from a combat theater, since the late 19th century.
Meningococcal Meningitis and the Meningococcal Vaccine
NBL's Contract for bubonic plague, Rift Valley fever and Meningitis.
Rachel Schneerson
Simon Flexner