Postmortem microbiology as a routine tool for legal-medicine in Italy: is it time?


Submitted: 2 June 2017
Accepted: 30 June 2017
Published: 7 July 2017
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Postmortem microbiology may be important to determine the cause of the death. We report a case study of Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis where the lack of sampling standardization and poor knowledge of this tool could affect medical-legal investigation.

d’Aleo, F., Bonanno, R., Bianco, G., & Trunfio, A. (2017). Postmortem microbiology as a routine tool for legal-medicine in Italy: is it time?. Microbiologia Medica, 32(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2017.6828

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