Detection of diverse aquatic microbes in blood and organs of drowning victims: First metagenomic approach using high-throughput 454-pyrosequencing

Forensic Science International

Volumn 220, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 135-146

  Kakizaki, Eiji ^a   Ogura, Yoshitoshi ^a,b   Kozawa, Shuji ^a   Nishida, Sho ^a   Uchiyama, Taketo ^a,c   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^a,b   Yukawa, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^c Miyazaki Pref Police Headquarters   (Japan)

Author keywords

Algae; Bacterioplankton; Barcode 454 pyrosequencing; Cyanobacteria; Diatom; Drowning

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

454 PYROSEQUENCING; ADULT; ALGA; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; DICTYOCHOPHYCEAE; DNA BARCODING; DROWNING; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PILOT STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA 16S GENE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 84862649292     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.02.010     Document Type: Article

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