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what is the difference between Nisseria Meningitis and Nisseria Meningidis

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Thanks for using AllExperts. I believe you may be a bit confused by the terminology here. Neisseria meningitidis is a bacterium; those two terms define its standardized, scientific name under the binomial nomenclature system. Neisseria meningitis is a disease caused by that bacterium; it is a serious, rapidly fatal inflammation of the tissue layers surrounding the brain and spinal cord, called meninges. Two different things are being discussed here: the bacterium itself, and the disease caused by it.

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