Sara Branham identified a new organism, Neisseria flavescens, as a rare cause of meningitis and septicemia in humans
In 1930, Sara E. Branham identified a new organism, Neisseria flavescens, as a rare cause of meningitis and septicemia in humans, but one requiring careful differentiation from meningococcus.
In 1970 she was honored posthumously by the name of a new genus, Branhamella.
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Source: National Institutes of Health
Credit: Photo credit: Courtesy of the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum.
