Extraction of gunshot residues from the larvae of the forensically important blowfly Calliphora dubia (Macquart) (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 63-70

  Roeterdink, Evan M ^a   Dadour, Ian R ^a   Watling, R John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calliphora dubia; Entomotoxicology; Forensic entomology; Gunshot residue; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; BARIUM; GUNPOWDER; LEAD;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CALLIPHORA DUBIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; EXTRACTION; FEEDING; FLY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GUNSHOT INJURY; LARVA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIMONY; BARIUM; CATTLE; DIPTERA; ENTOMOLOGY; FORENSIC SCIENCES; HUMANS; LARVA; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEAT; MYIASIS; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 2442496486     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-003-0408-1     Document Type: Article

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