Fungi can be a useful forensic tool

Legal Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 240-242

  Hitosugi, Masahito ^a   Ishii, Kiyoshi ^a   Yaguchi, Takashi ^b   Chigusa, Yuichi ^a   Kurosu, Akira ^a   Kido, Masahito ^a   Nagai, Toshiaki ^a   Tokudome, Shogo ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Forensic entomology; Fungi; Postmortem interval

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; BODY SURFACE; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; DECOMPOSITION; FACE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; TIME OF DEATH;

AGED; ASPERGILLUS; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; PENICILLIUM; POSTMORTEM CHANGES;

EID: 33746316406     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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