Fly larvae: a new toxicological method of investigation in forensic medicine |
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| Authors: | P Kintz B Godelar A Tracqui P Mangin A A Lugnier A J Chaumont |
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| Affiliation: | Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg, France. |
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| Abstract: | Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to achieve because of the absence of blood and urine. In this study, maggots, living material, are proposed as a new medium of investigation in forensic medicine. Five drugs (triazolam, oxazepam, phenobarbital, alimemazine, and clomipramine) were identified and assayed in some tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the maggots found on and in the body. |
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