Sensitive to the external environment and to drying, and capable of living both in pairs and singly, meningococcus C is a Gram-negative, aerobic, immobile, asporogenic bacterium, positive for the cytochrome-oxidase enzyme and of variable size between 0.6 and 1 micron.
Meningococcus C is a transmissible bacterium: its transmission can occur through the droplets of respiratory secretion or the oral-pharyngeal tract produced and emitted by an infected individual or through contact with contaminated objects.
Both when it causes meningitis and when it causes sepsis, meningococcus C is responsible for a "serious infection, which, in the absence of timely and adequate treatment, can lead to death.
In Italy, there is the possibility of preventing meningococcal C infections by using the special anti-meningococcal C vaccine.
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