Book Details
Orange Code:94775
Paperback:416 pages
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Sections:
1. A primer on microbiology2. History, current, and future use of microorganisms as physical evidence3. Approaches and considerations for forensic microbiology decomposition research4. Sampling methods and data generation5. An introduction to metagenomic data generation, analysis, visualization, and interpretation6. Culture and long‐term storage of microorganisms for forensic science7. Clinical microbiology and virology in the context of the autopsy8. Postmortem bacterial translocation9. Microbial impacts in postmortem toxicology10. Microbial communities associated with decomposing corpses11. Arthropod–microbe interactions on vertebrate remains: Potential applications in the forensic sciences12. Microbes, anthropology, and bones13. Forensic microbiology in built environments14. Soil bacteria as trace evidence15. DNA profiling of bacteria from human hair: Potential and pitfalls
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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 potentially practitioners, to examine microbial communities at unprecedented resolution and in multidisciplinary contexts. This detailed study of microbes facilitates the development of new forensic tools that use the structure and function of microbial communities as physical evidence.
Chapters cover:
- Experiment design
- Data analysis
- Sample preservation
- The influence of microbes on results from autopsy, toxicology, and histology
- Decomposition ecology
- Trace evidence
This diverse, rapidly evolving field of study has the potential to provide high quality microbial evidence which can be replicated across laboratories, providing spatial and temporal evidence which could be crucial in a broad range of investigative contexts. This book is intended as a resource for students, microbiologists, investigators, pathologists, and other forensic science professionals.
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