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Meningitis Scare in the University Microbiology Lab - Neatorama

A microbiology professor at a university in Utah gave his students a microbe to identify. The lab instructor expected most of the results, at least from the better students, to come back as the common bacteria Plesiomonas shigelloides. None did. Instead, after studying the microbe's morphology and running chemical tests, they identified it as Neisseria meningitidis, which causes meningitis and other deadly infections. And it can be spread through the air. Checking the storage freezer, they found