supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2019YFA0802900);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32122035,32000669,32070942);a Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Plan Special Fund(BK20232018).
Meningitis is one of the major threats to prenatal and newborn babies,causing more than 300,000 infant deaths worldwide annually.Survivors often suffer from long-term neuron-developmental disorders caused by the infec...