meningococci
- plural of meningococcus.
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Thousands of recruits had meningococci in their throats, but did not get sick.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Long and Dr. Eleanor Bliss, who collaborated with him throughout on streptococci, next applied Prontylin to the meningococci which cause spinal menngitis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ten years ago Dr. Newell Simmons Ferry, whom Parke, Davis & Co. had hired from the University of Tennessee, began to hunt for a toxin which the meningococci might excrete.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a third and worse possibility: meningococci, which could kill Mary within an hour or two.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most meningococci have the sense to stay out on the surface, in the rhinopharynx.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
