Insects' colonization of human corpses in warm and cold season

Legal Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Schroeder, Hilke ^a   Klotzbach, Heike ^a   Püschel, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Insects' colonization; Postmortem interval; Seasonal differences

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLY; HUMAN; INSECT; ORGANISM COLONY; RESEARCH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TIME OF DEATH; WINTER;

EID: 0038753987     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(02)00135-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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