Detection of bacterioplankton in immersed cadavers using selective agar plates

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Kakizaki, Eiji ^a   Kozawa, Shuji ^a   Tashiro, Noriko ^a   Sakai, Masahiro ^b   Yukawa, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterioplankton; Drowning; Fresh water; Marine bacteria; Seawater

Indexed keywords

AGAR; FRESH WATER; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AEROMONAS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CADAVER; CITROBACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWNING; ENTEROBACTER; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA; HUMAN; LISTONELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSYCHROBACTER; RIVER; SEA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEWANELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; VIBRIO; VICTIM;

AGAR; BACTERIA; BATHS; CADAVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CULTURE MEDIA; DROWNING; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; IMMERSION; LUMINESCENCE; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

EID: 67349158619     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.01.046     Document Type: Article

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