Neisseria meningitides Can Survive in Corpses for At Least Eleven Days

Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2016 Jul 13:6:74. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2016.00074. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Antonio Osculati¹, Silvia D Visonà¹, Alberto Colombo², Petra Basso³, Luisa Andrello⁴, Antonio Toniolo²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia Pavia, Italy.
² Laboratory of Microbiology, ASST-Settelaghi, University of Insubria Varese, Italy.
³ Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria Varese, Italy.
⁴ Service of Legal Medicine of Canton Ticino Bellinzona, Switzerland.

No abstract available

Keywords: Neisseria meningitidis; forensic autopsy; infectious disease transmission; meningococcal sepsis; survival.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Autopsy
Cadaver
Fatal Outcome
Female
Humans
Infant
Meningococcal Infections / microbiology*
Meningococcal Infections / transmission
Neisseria meningitidis / genetics
Neisseria meningitidis / isolation & purification*
Neisseria meningitidis / physiology