[Hydra with seven heads: epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis or better meningococcal infection. Neisseria meningitis, Prévot 1933].

Abstract

A brief survey is presented of meningococcal meningitis, its history, its chemotherapy, the appearance of resistant bacterial strains, and its vaccine therapy. The epidemiology of the disease in various European and other countries is also described.

• Authors: G Bilancioni
• Journal: Minerva medica (Minerva Med) Vol. 67 Issue 24 Pg. 1603-12 (May 12 1976) ISSN: 0026-4806 [Print] Italy
• Vernacular Title: Un'idar dalle sette teste: la meningite cerebro-spinale epidemica o, meglio, l'infezione da meningococco. Neisseria meningitidis, Prévot, 1933
• PMID: 819879 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Antibodies, Bacterial
• Sulfathiazoles
• Sulfadiazine
• Sulfamethoxazole
• Sulfamerazine

Topics

• Antibodies, Bacterial
• Antibody Formation
• England
• Hemagglutination Tests
• Humans
• Immunotherapy
• Italy
• Meningitis, Meningococcal (drug therapy, epidemiology, immunology, therapy)
• Neisseria meningitidis (isolation & purification)
• Spain
• Sulfadiazine (therapeutic use)
• Sulfamerazine (therapeutic use)
• Sulfamethoxazole (therapeutic use)
• Sulfathiazoles (therapeutic use)
• United States