Fly Larvae: A New Toxicological Method of Investigation in Forensic Medicine
Kintz, P
Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg, France.

Godelar, B
Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg, France.

Tracqui, A
Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg, France.

Mangin, P
Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg, France.

Lugnier, AA
Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg, France.

Chaumont, AJ
Institut de Médecine Légale, Strasbourg, France.


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:
forensic science, larvae, putrefaction, toxicology

Paper ID: JFS351900204

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