Background: Estimation of the Postmortem Interval (PMI), the time elapsed since death, is one of the most challenging issues in forensic sciences [1]. Most studies focus on extensive bacterial sequencing, but culture-based experiments for higher taxonomic resolution remain scarce [2]. Objective: We aimed to analyze total bacterial counts and map Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus aureusand Escherichia coli i...