title: Fly larvae: a new toxicological method of investigation in forensic medicine.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kintz
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Godelar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tracqui
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mangin
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Lugnier
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Chaumont
mesh_terms: 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*
chemical_list: D001569:Benzodiazepines; D014229:Triazolam; D010076:Oxazepam; D014291:Trimeprazine; D002997:Clomipramine; D010634:Phenobarbital