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neisseria, n. Microbiology.|naɪˈsɪərɪə|
Pl. -æ.
[a. mod.L. Neisseria, f. the name of Albert Ludwig Siegmund Neisser (1855–1916), German dermatologist and bacteriologist: see -ia1.]
Any bacterium of the genus Neisseria of aerobic, Gram-negative, parasitic or pathogenic diplococci found on mammalian mucous membranes.
1950C. J. Witton Microbiol. xxvii. 377 All neisseriae are gram-negative paired cocci with flattened adjacent sides. 1962Lancet 5 May 933/1 The effect could also be elicited by Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, and a diphtheroid, but not by a commensal neisseria (one strain of each tested). 1976B. M. Mitruka Methods Detection & Identification Bacteria ii. 34/1 The neisseriae are Gram-negative diplococci, many species of which normally colonize the oropharynx and the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts of humans. 1982K. Kano in Milgrom & Flanagan Med. Microbiol. xxvii. 362/2 The..nonpathogenic neisseriae can grow in ordinary media such as nutrient agar at 22° C. |