TY - JOUR AU - Ridpath, Alison AU - Halse, Tanya AU - Musser, Kimberlee AU - Wroblewski, Danielle AU - Paddock, Christopher AU - Shieh, Wun-Ju AU - Pasquale-Styles, Melissa AU - Scordi-Bello, Irini AU - Del Rosso, Paula AU - Weiss, Don T1 - Postmortem Diagnosis of Invasive Meningococcal Disease T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2014 VL - 20 IS - 3 SP - 453 SN - 1080-6059 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. KW - Neisseria meningitidis KW - New York City KW - polymerase chain reaction KW - PCR KW - bacteria KW - New York DO - 10.3201/eid2003.131245 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/3/13-1245_article ER - End of Reference