A female Central Michigan University student was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis over the weekend, the first case at that university in about 20 years, CMU officials say.

The student was a resident of Woldt Hall on campus. She was diagnosed over the weekend in her home in Southeast Michigan and is hospitalized there where she is expected to make a full recovery, Central Michigan spokesman Mike Silverthorn said.

University health officials have notified everyone who might have come in contact with the victim, Silverthorn said.

The university was notified on Monday and will not release the student's name or location.

Although there have been cases of viral meningitis on Central's campus, this is the first bacterial form diagnosed in about two decades, said Sarah Campbell, director of University Health Services.

An MSU female journalism sophomore was released from Lansing's Sparrow Hospital last month after almost a two-month bout with a meningitis-like disease.

There have been six cases of bacterial meningitis at MSU since 1996. Three were fatal.

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