Decline in autopsy rate leads to underdiagnosis of fungal disease?

Autopsy rates in many European, Asian and American countries have declined steadily - down to 3% in Germany by 1999 compared with 10% as recently as 1980. Overall rates are much higher in the United States but there has still been a major decline from 67% to 26% between 1989 and 2003. Reasons for this decline are given as a dislike amongst the public for them to be carried out, the

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