With the aim of promoting standardisation and research in the field of forensic microbiology, the ESCMID Study Group of Forensic and Post-mortem Microbiology (ESGFOR) launched in October 2014 with the following main objectives:
ESGFOR welcomes any person interested in ancient DNA, phylogenetics, organ and tissue transplants, biosafety and bioterrorism.
Unlocking Women's Sexual Health: The Intersection of Forensics and the Microbiome
Online Workshop, 11-12 November 2025
Fatal Streptococcus pyogenes infections in Spain, Turkey, UK and Belgium after pandemics: A comprehensive case series combining microbiology with autopsy findings. A study of the ESCMID Study Group for Forensic and Post-Mortem Microbiology (ESGFOR)
Veroniek Saegeman, Amparo Fernandez-Rodriguez, Nihan Ziyade, Raquel Abad Moralejo, Marta C Cohen. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 2025. The manuscript was accepted on December 10 2025
Postmortem microbiological sampling: a prospective ESGFOR-supported study on relevance, timing, and site selection.
Tamsin A, Claes A, Van Den Bogaert W, Weynand B, Rodriguez AF, Van de Voorde W, Saegeman V. Virchows Arch. 2025 Nov 8
Forensic Microbiology: When, Where and How.
Nodari R, Arghittu M, Bailo P, Cattaneo C, Creti R, D'Aleo F, Saegeman V, Franceschetti L, Novati S, Fernández-Rodríguez A, Verzeletti A, Farina C, Bandi C; ESCMID Study Group of Forensic and Post-Mortem Microbiology (ESGFOR) and the AMCLI Forensic Microbiology Study Group (GLAMIFO). Microorganisms. 2024 May 14;12(5):988
Biosafety Recommendations for Medico-legal Autopsies: Update after the COVID-19 pandemic
Fernández Liste A, Fernández-Rodríguez A, Muñoz Hernández V, Carnicero Cáceres S, Cohen MC, Morentin Campillo B; on behalf of ESGFOR & Spanish Society of Forensic Pathology. ESCMID. 2023 Dec.
The future is now: Unraveling the expanding potential of human (necro)microbiome in forensic investigations.
Ferreira AC, Barbosa D, Saegeman V, Rodríguez AF, Oliveira RJD, Freitas AR; on behalf of ESGFOR. Microorganisms. 2023;11(10):2509.
Post-mortem diagnosis of fungi infection: culture and non-culture mycology, pathology, and public health issues.
28 May 2025 at 16:00 CET
Webinar-Workshop ESGFOR-SEPAF “Challenging autopsy cases: what we may learn from them”
Online - 19 December 2023
If you have questions or comments for our study group, we warmly invite you to contact us!
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