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Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist Anton Wiechselbaum (1845-1920)

Wiechselbaum identified the meningococcus (designated as Diplococcus intracellularis meningitidis) in cerebrospinal fluid and established the connection between the organism and epidemic meningitis. (Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.)

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  • deficiency of a terminal complement component (C5-9)
  • deficiency of properdin