Forensic microbiology / edited by David O. Carter, Jeffery K. Tomberlin, M. Eric Benbow, Jessica L. Metcalf.
Forensic Microbiology focuses on newly emerging areas of microbiology relevant to medicolegal and criminal investigations: postmortem changes, establishing cause of death, estimating postmortem interval, and trace evidence analysis. Recent developments in sequencing technology allow researchers, and...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
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2017.
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| Series: | Forensic science in focus.
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Table of Contents:
- A primer on microbiology
- History, current, and future use of microorganisms as physical evidence
- Approaches and considerations for forensic microbiology decomposition research
- Sampling methods and data generation
- An introduction to metagenomic data generation, analysis, visualization, and interpretation
- Culture and long-term storage of microorganisms for forensic science
- Clinical microbiology and virology in the context of the autopsy
- Postmortem bacterial translocation
- Microbial impacts in postmortem toxicology
- Microbial communities associated with decomposing corpses
- Arthropod-microbe interactions on vertebrate remains: Potential applications in the forensic sciences
- Microbes, anthropology, and bones
- Forensic microbiology in built environments
- Soil bacteria as trace evidence
- DNA profiling of bacteria from human hair: Potential and pitfalls
- Perspectives on the future of forensic microbiology.