Analysis of opiates in fly larvae sampled on a putrefied cadaver.
Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to achieve, because of the absence of blood and/or urine. Drugs present in a decomposing corpse may be identified through analysis of maggots feeding off it. In this study, morphine and codeine were simultaneously identified and assayed in blood and bile of a putrefied cadaver and in the fly larvae of Calliphoridae found on the corpse.
Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg, France.
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D000818:Animals; D001646:Bile / Q000737:chemistry; D002102:Cadaver; D003061:Codeine / Q000032:analysis* / Q000097:blood; D004175:Diptera / Q000737:chemistry*; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007814:Larva / Q000737:chemistry; D008297:Male; D009020:Morphine / Q000032:analysis* / Q000097:blood
D009020:Morphine; D003061:Codeine