Ultrasound-guided minimally invasive autopsy as a tool for rapid post-mortem diagnosis in the 2018 Sao Paulo yellow fever epidemic: Correlation with conventional autopsy.

• Main Authors: Amaro Nunes Duarte-Neto (Author), Renata Aparecida de Almeida Monteiro (Author), Janaina Johnsson (Author), Marielton Dos Passos Cunha (Author), Shahab Zaki Pour (Author), Amanda Cartagenes Saraiva (Author), Yeh-Li Ho (Author), Luiz Fernando Ferraz da Silva (Author), Thais Mauad (Author), Paolo Marinho de Andrade Zanotto (Author), Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva (Author), Ilka Regina Souza de Oliveira (Author), Marisa Dolhnikoff (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>New strategies for collecting post-mortem tissue are necessary, particularly in areas with emerging infections. Minimally invasive autopsy (MIA) has been proposed as an alternative to conventional autopsy (CA), with promising results. Previous studies using MIA address...