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capsule; causes meningitis, produces endotoxin; pa¬ 
tients should be isolated and strictest attention should be 
given to disinfection; serum treatment is the only effi¬ 
cient treatment. 
The parameningococci or pseudo- (false) meningococci 
resemble the meningococci in everything except in not 
agglutinating in the same way (that is, they agglutinate 
in much lower dilutions). 
