TY - JOUR
T1 - Postmortem diagnosis of invasive meningococcal disease
AU - Ridpath, Alison D.
AU - Halse, Tanya A.
AU - Musser, Kimberlee A.
AU - Wroblewski, Danielle
AU - Paddock, Christopher D.
AU - Shieh, Wun Ju
AU - Pasquale-Styles, Melissa
AU - Scordi-Bello, Irini
AU - Del Rosso, Paula E.
AU - Weiss, Don
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - We diagnosed invasive meningococcal disease by using immunohistochemical staining of embalmed tissue and PCR of vitreous humor from 2 men in New York City. Because vitreous humor is less subject than other body fluids to putrefaction, it is a good material for postmortem analysis.
AB - We diagnosed invasive meningococcal disease by using immunohistochemical staining of embalmed tissue and PCR of vitreous humor from 2 men in New York City. Because vitreous humor is less subject than other body fluids to putrefaction, it is a good material for postmortem analysis.
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U2 - 10.3201/eid2003.131245
DO - 10.3201/eid2003.131245
M3 - Article
C2 - 24565379
AN - SCOPUS:84894283882
SN - 1080-6040
VL - 20
SP - 453
EP - 455
JO - Emerging Infectious Diseases
JF - Emerging Infectious Diseases
IS - 3
ER -