The usefulness of cadaveric fungi as an investigation tool

In forensic pathology, it is common practice to date the postmortem interval (PMI) only as an approximation. Interval estimation is based on cadaveric phenomena, which are very dynamic and at the same difficult to quantify and reproduce experimentally, that is, cooling, hypostasis, rigor mortis, and postmortem changes. The important role that the chronology after death plays in order to assess the time of death and the continuous lack of objective evidence for this assessment prompted the interest of numerous scholars to study this subject in depth. Nevertheless, one of the possible contributions to establish the PMI might be provided by mycology.