First utilization of BioFire FilmArray® Respiratory Panel 2 Plus in post-mortem diagnosis of Influenza A H1N1


Submitted: 28 May 2019
Accepted: 13 September 2019
Published: 6 November 2019
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  • Francesco d'Aleo Microbiology and Virology Unit, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano, Reggio Calabria; GLAMIFO – Study Group on Forensic Microbiology, AMCLI, Milan, Italy. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4151-8768
  • Valentina Gatto Microbiology and Virology Unit, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
  • Mattia Chisari Microbiology and Virology Unit, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
  • Daniela Marcuccio Microbiology and Virology Unit, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
  • Maria Cuzzola Microbiology and Virology Unit, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
  • Marco Conte Microbiology and Virology Unit, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
  • Claudio Farina GLAMIFO – Study Group on Forensic Microbiology, AMCLI, Milan; Microbiology and Virology Unit, Local Health Unit ”Papa Giovanni XXIII”, Bergamo, Italy.

Post-mortem microbiology is an important tool in legal medicine and forensic pathology; this case report shows the importance of microbiological testing to establish the cause of death in infection suspected death. We refer a case of fatal Influenza A (H1N1) diagnosed only after dead with post-mortem microbiology tool.


d’Aleo, F., Gatto, V., Chisari, M., Marcuccio, D., Cuzzola, M., Conte, M., & Farina, C. (2019). First utilization of BioFire FilmArray® Respiratory Panel 2 Plus in post-mortem diagnosis of Influenza A H1N1. Microbiologia Medica, 34(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2019.8311

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