Gunshot-related displacement of skin particles and bacteria from the exit region back into the bullet path

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-111

  Vennemann, B ^a   Grosse Perdekamp M ^a   Kneubuehl, B P ^b   Serr, A ^a   Pollak, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ARMASUISSE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacterial contamination; Bullet track; Composite model; Gunshot exit wound

Indexed keywords

GELATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BULLET; GUNSHOT INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SURFACE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; FORENSIC BALLISTICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SWINE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 33846910037     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-006-0107-9     Document Type: Article

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