title: [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.
mesh_terms: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D000917:Antibody Formation; D004739:England; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy; D007558:Italy; D008585:Meningitis, Meningococcal / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy; D009345:Neisseria meningitidis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013030:Spain; D013411:Sulfadiazine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013416:Sulfamerazine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013420:Sulfamethoxazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013432:Sulfathiazoles / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D013432:Sulfathiazoles; D013411:Sulfadiazine; D013420:Sulfamethoxazole; D013416:Sulfamerazine
vernacular_title: Un'idar dalle sette teste: la meningite cerebro-spinale epidemica o, meglio, l'infezione da meningococco. Neisseria meningitidis, Prévot, 1933