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

Postmortem microbiology may be important to determine the cause of the death. We report a case study of <em>Klebsiella</em> <em>pneumoniae</em> meningitis where the lack of sampling standardization and poor knowledge of this tool could affect medical-legal investigation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Francesco d'Aleo, Roberta Bonanno, Giovanna Bianco, Antonino Trunfio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2017-07-01
Series:Microbiologia Medica
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Online Access:http://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/mm/article/view/6828