The importance of the postmortem interval for the diagnosis of Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome by Neisseria meningitidis in a series of forensic cases

• Main Authors: Guendalina Gentile (Author), Alberto Amadasi (Author), Paolo Bailo (Author), Michele Boracchi (Author), Francesca Maciocco (Author), Matteo Marchesi (Author), Riccardo Zoja (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The effective value of microbiological post-mortem examinations stands as fundamental in forensic cases involving microbiology. We ran these analyses on five victims, who suddenly died after showing persistent fever. The examinations were conducted between 48 hours and 10 days after death, and adren...