Please answer without copying and pasting from another source. thanks need 5 dif
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Please answer without copying and pasting from another source. thanks need 5 different pieces of relevant info
3. Meningitis is a disease of the central nervous system with a variety of possible causative agents, including bacteria or viruses. Imagine that you work in a clinical microbiology lab, and you receive a sample of spinal fluid from a suspected meningitis case. You do a Gram stain on the sample first, of course. What five different pieces of relevant information can you learn from the Gram stain?
Explanation / Answer
Bacterial meningitis is caused by Neisseria meningitidis which is gram negative bacteria and cocuus in shape
As these bacteria are gram negative they have lipopolysaccharide and thin peptidoglycan.mostly these are endotoxin.