Neisseria

See also: neisseria

Translingual

Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Etymology

Named after German physician Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855–1916) +‎ -ia (taxonomic suffix).

Proper noun

Neisseria f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Neisseriaceae – proteobacteria that colonize the mucosal surfaces of many animals. The genus includes two parasitic bacteria species, one of which is the cause of gonorrhea, the other a cause of meningitis.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Gammaproteobacteria - class; Burkholderiales - order; Neisseriaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Neisseria gonorrhoeae - type species; Neisseria meningitidis - selected other species

Derived terms

• Neisseriaceae

References

• Neisseria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Neisseria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Neisseria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Neisseria at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Neisseria in the Genome Taxonomy Database