Evaluation of postmortem bacterial migration using culturing and real-time quantitative PCR

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 910-916

  Tuomisto, Sari ^a,b   Karhunen, Pekka J ^a,b   Vuento, Risto ^b   Aittoniemi, Janne ^b   Pessi, Tanja ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b PIRKANMAA HOSPITAL DISTRICT   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bacterial culturing; Forensic science; Postmortem microbiology; Real time quantitative polymerase chain reaction; Sample reliability; Sampling place

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CULTURING; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BLOOD; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MESENTERY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; POSTMORTEM MICROBIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLE RELIABILITY; SAMPLING PLACE; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

BACTERIAL CULTURING; FORENSIC SCIENCE; POSTMORTEM MICROBIOLOGY; REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLE RELIABILITY; SAMPLING PLACE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIVER; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MESENTERY; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880145697     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.12124     Document Type: Article

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