First report of maggots of family piophilidae recovered from human cadavers in Malaysia

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-175

  Nazni, W A ^a   Jeffery, J ^b   Sa'diyah, I ^a   Noorjuliana, W M ^a   Chen, C D ^a   Rohayu, S A ^c   Hafizam, A H ^c   Lee, H L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Malaysia)

^c Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CADAVER; FEMALE; FLY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; LARVA; MALAYSIA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CADAVER; DIPTERA; ENTOMOLOGY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; LARVA; MALAYSIA; MALE;

EID: 69449085068     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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