The meningococcus and mechanisms of pathogenicity

Microbiol Rev. 1982 Jun;46(2):162-90. doi: 10.1128/mr.46.2.162-190.1982.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Bacterial / immunology
  • Carbohydrate Metabolism
  • Carbon Dioxide / metabolism
  • Carrier State
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Electron Transport
  • Endotoxins / analysis
  • Fimbriae, Bacterial / physiology
  • Hemorrhage / etiology
  • Humans
  • Immunity, Innate
  • Iron / metabolism
  • Meningitis, Meningococcal / microbiology
  • Meningococcal Infections / immunology
  • Meningococcal Infections / microbiology
  • Neisseria meningitidis / immunology
  • Neisseria meningitidis / pathogenicity*
  • Neisseria meningitidis / physiology
  • Polysaccharides, Bacterial / biosynthesis
  • Purpura / etiology
  • Sulfur / metabolism

Substances

  • Antibodies, Bacterial
  • Endotoxins
  • Polysaccharides, Bacterial
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Sulfur
  • Iron