ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 4

Fly Larvae: A New Toxicological Method of Investigation in Forensic Medicine
Lugnier, AA
Institut de Médecine Légale,

Chaumont, AJ
Institut de Médecine Légale,

Tracqui, A
Institut de Médecine Légale,

Godelar, B
Institut de Médecine Légale,

Kintz, P
Institut de Médecine Légale,

Mangin, P
Institut de Médecine Légale,

(Received 17 October 1988; accepted 10 February 1989)

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.

Keywords:
toxicology, larvae, putrefaction

Paper ID: JFS12821J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS12821J
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