Meningococcus and Gonococcus: Never the Twain... Well, Hardly Ever

Abstract

Among the more intriguing unanswered questions related to infectious diseases are not only how illness and death are induced, but why some of their causative organisms have predilections for certain areas of the host. So accustomed do we become to the latter that we often tend to dismiss a particular organism's possible role in a clinical problem because of the seeming location of the infectious process. Good and pertinent examples of this in relation to the Neisseriae are provided by two papers in this issue of the Journal (Taubin and Landsberg, and Keys et al.). One deals with a case . . .