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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• postmortem microbiology, Klebsiella, meningitis