Management of the corpse with suspect, probable or confirmed COVID-19 respiratory infection - Italian interim recommendations for personnel potentially exposed to material from corpses, including body fluids, in morgue structures and during autopsy practice

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopaedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
• ² Department of Molecular Medicine, Legal Medicine, University of Padua, Italy.
• ³ Institute of Legal Medicine, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical Medicine, Public Health, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Italy.
• ⁵ Departmental section of Legal Medicine "G. Martino", University of Messina, Italy.
• ⁶ Forensic and Sports Medicine Section, Department of Surgery and Biomedical Science, University of Perugia, Italy.
• ⁷ Section of Legal Medicine, University of Macerata, Italy.
• ⁸ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Forensic Pathology, University of Foggia, Ospedale Colonnello D'Avanzo, Foggia, Italy.
• ⁹ Department of Legal Medicine, University of Trieste, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Department of Surgical Pathology, Medical, Molecular and Critical Area, University of Pisa, Italy.
• ¹¹ Department of Health Sciences, Section of Forensic Medicine, University of Florence, Italy.
• ¹² Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience, Santa Maria alle Scotte University Hospital of Siena, Italy.
• ¹³ Department of Legal Medicine, Azienda USL Toscana Nordovest, Lucca, Italy.
• ¹⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Legal Medicine, University of Sassari, Italy.
• ¹⁵ Department of Medical Science, Surgical Science and advanced Technologies "G.F, Ingrassia", University of Catania, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, Section of Legal Medicine and LTTA Centre, University of Ferrara, Italy.
• ¹⁷ Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Italy.
• ¹⁸ ASL "Città di Torino", Regional Center for Prion Diseases (DOMP), Turin, Italy.
• ¹⁹ Department of Law, Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy.
• ²⁰ SCA Anatomia Patologica, ASST Valle Olona, Busto Arsizio, Italy.
• ²¹ SC Anatomia Istologia Patologica e Citogenetica, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda Milan, Italy.
• ²² UOC di Anatomia Patologica, ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia, Italy.
• ²³ Anatomia Patologica, ASST-FBF-Sacco, Dibic, UNIMI, Italy.
• ²⁴ SC Anatomia Patologica FPO-IRCCS, Candiolo (Turin), Italy.
• ²⁵ Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Italy.