Bacterial Meningitis: Causes
Pathogenesis (development of disease) Bacterial meningitis is usually transmitted by droplet infection. Approximately 2.5 cases of the disease occur per 100,000 population annually. Most are infections caused by the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae (so-called pneumococci), Neisseria meningitidis (so-called meningococci; a good two-thirds of all cases by serogroup B, about a quarter of all cases by serogroup … Bacterial Meningitis: Causes