Fly larvae: a new toxicological method of investigation in forensic medicine.
Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to achieve because of the absence of blood and urine. In this study, maggots, living material, are proposed as a new medium of investigation in forensic medicine. Five drugs (triazolam, oxazepam, phenobarbital, alimemazine, and clomipramine) were identified and assayed in some tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the maggots found on and in the body.
Kintz
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Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg, France.
Godelar
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Tracqui
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Mangin
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Lugnier
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Chaumont
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D000818:Animals; D001569:Benzodiazepines / Q000032:analysis*; D002102:Cadaver; D002997:Clomipramine / Q000032:analysis*; D004175:Diptera / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D007814:Larva / Q000032:analysis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010076:Oxazepam / Q000032:analysis; D010634:Phenobarbital / Q000032:analysis*; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D014229:Triazolam / Q000032:analysis; D014291:Trimeprazine / Q000032:analysis*
D001569:Benzodiazepines; D014229:Triazolam; D010076:Oxazepam; D014291:Trimeprazine; D002997:Clomipramine; D010634:Phenobarbital