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Open AccessA field study to evaluate PMI estimation methods for advanced decomposition stages
Estimating the postmortem interval (PMI) is one of the major tasks and a continuous challenge in forensic pathology. It is often an exclusion process of available methods, which ultimately can lead to an unsat...
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Diatoms in drowning cases in forensic veterinary context: a preliminary study
In this preliminary study, a digestive method used in forensic context to extract diatoms has been applied in organs taken from ten wildlife animals belonging three species of mammals (a deer, a roe and five o...
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Forensic Implications of Myiasis
Myiasis has been defined variously by numerous different authors over the years. The term itself was first coined by Hope in his 1840 paper entitled “On insects and their larvae occasionally found in the human...
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Best practice in forensic entomology—standards and guidelines
Forensic entomology, the use of insects and other arthropods in forensic investigations, is becoming increasingly more important in such investigations. To ensure its optimal use by a diverse group of professi...
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Biological vs Legal Age of Living Individuals
The demand of forensic age determination in living individuals deals mostly with juvenile or subadults because in most European countries, the legally relevant age limit ranges between the 14th and 21st year o...
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Drug analysis in blowfly larvae and in human tissues: a comparative study
The present study investigates the correlation between concentrations of drugs in human tissues and Diptera larvae feeding on these tissues. Samples of liver were taken from 18 cases in which preliminary toxic...
