Palmiere C, et al. - Researchers examined the proportion of positive bacterial cultures in a series of individuals with diabetes mellitus who underwent forensic investigations and evaluated the frequency of hyperglycemia at the time of death in these cases as well as the percentage of diabetics with the cause of death due to bacterial infection. They included forensic autopsy cases characterized by positive bacterial cultures and pre-existing diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. The preliminary results highlighted the advantage of systematically performing postmortem bacteriology in the forensic setting to more precisely characterize infectious risk factors in diabetics.