Meningitis
Meningitis

A high power view of the meningitis with numerous neutrophils, lymphocytes and macrophages, indicating an acute purulent meninigits.
The most comman organisms producing meninigitis in adult are Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) and Meningiococcus.
The latter tends to occur in epidemics.
(Description By:Margaret Grunnet,M.D. )
(Image Contrib. by:Margaret Grunnet,M.D. UCHC )