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Coccus vs Meningococcus - What's the difference?

coccus | meningococcus | Related terms |

Coccus is a related term of meningococcus.


As nouns the difference between coccus and meningococcus

is that coccus is any approximately spherical bacterium while meningococcus is a pathogenic bacterium, , that causes cerebrospinal meningitis.

meningococcus

English

Noun

(meningococci)
  • A pathogenic bacterium, , that causes cerebrospinal meningitis
  • Derived terms

    *meningococcal