Postmortem Analysis and the Role of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory

Abstract

The clinical microbiology laboratory frequently receives specimens for culture collected at autopsy. The results generated from these culture requests can either provide valuable information or produce confusion, depending largely on the selection of sites to sample, collection technique, and interpretation of results in the context of data available from patient history and histology. This mini-review is intended to provide guidance to the pathologist in the best use of microbiology testing at autopsy.

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Autopsy Infectious disease

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