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G Passaro1, M dell'Aquila2, A De Filippis2
1Gemelli IRCCS Research Hospital, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Rome.
La Clinica Terapeutica
|December 21, 2020
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Post-mortem diagnosis of sepsis is often very difficult to make, especially in the elderly affected by multiple comorbidities. However, clinical evaluation following histology, immunohistochemistry, microbiological tests, immunoassays and proteomics can improve reliability of this post-mortem diagnosis.
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