The 'thanato-resistome' - The funeral industry as a potential reservoir of antibiotic resistance: Early insights and perspectives. [PDF]
Sci Total Environ, 2020 The funeral industry is a potential reservoir of antibiotic resistance. The occurrence, human exposure and health risks of antibiotic resistance in the funeral industry were examined.
Gwenzi W.
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The smell of death. State-of-the-art and future research directions. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2023 The decomposition of a body is inseparably associated with the release of several types of odors. This phenomenon has been used in the training of sniffer dogs for decades.
Cieśla J +7 more
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Medico-Legal Applications of the Human Microbiome and Critical Issues Due to Environmental Transfer: A Review. [PDF]
MicroorganismsMicrobiome has recently seen an increase in its forensic applications. It could be employed to identify a suspect when DNA is not available; it can be used to establish postmortem interval (PMI).
Ricchezze G +4 more
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Artificial intelligence-driven microbiome data analysis for estimation of postmortem interval and crime location. [PDF]
Front MicrobiolMicrobial communities, demonstrating dynamic changes in cadavers and the surroundings, provide invaluable insights for forensic investigations. Conventional methodologies for microbiome sequencing data analysis face obstacles due to subjectivity and ...
Wu Z +9 more
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Applications of microbiology to different forensic scenarios – A narrative review [PDF]
, 2023 In contrast to other forensic disciplines, forensic microbiology is still too often considered a "side activity" and is not able to make a real and concrete contribution to forensic investigations.
F. Maciocco +6 more
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Microbiome in Death and Beyond: Current Vistas and Future Trends
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Forensic medicine has, for a long time, been relying on biochemical, anthropologic, and histopathologic evidences in solving various investigations.
Dipayan Roy +3 more
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PyDamage: automated ancient damage identification and estimation for contigs in ancient DNAde novoassembly [PDF]
, 2021 DNA de novo assembly can be used to reconstruct longer stretches of DNA (contigs), including genes and even genomes, from short DNA sequencing reads. Applying this technique to metagenomic data derived from archaeological remains, such as paleofeces and ...
Borry, M. +3 more
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The impact of freezing on the post-mortem human microbiome
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 IntroductionHuman donations are often used in forensic research as they can provide unique insights into post-mortem research that cannot be obtained with animal proxies.
Nengi Ogbanga +10 more
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Inference of drowning sites using bacterial composition and random forest algorithm [PDF]
, 2023 Diagnosing the drowning site is a major challenge in forensic practice, particularly when corpses are recovered from flowing rivers. Recently, forensic experts have focused on aquatic microorganisms, including bacteria, which can enter the bloodstream ...
Chao Liu +11 more
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A comparative in situ decomposition study using still born piglets and leaf litter from a deciduous forest [PDF]
, 2017 A cadaver and dead plant organic matter, or litter, are rich energy sources that undergo a complex decomposition process, which impact the surrounding environmental microbiota.
Nelson, A +2 more
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