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SUBMITTER: Ceciliason AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7782407 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ceciliason Ann-Sofie AS Andersson M Gunnar MG Lundin Emma E Sandler Håkan H
International journal of legal medicine 20201007 1
The objective of this study was to determine if a relationship between microbial neoformation of volatiles and the post-mortem interval (PMI) exists, and if the volatiles could be used as a tool to improve the precision of PMI estimation in decomposed human remains found in an indoor setting. Chromatograms from alcohol analysis (femoral vein blood) of 412 cases were retrospectively assessed for the presence of ethanol, N-propanol, 1-butanol, and acetaldehyde. The most common finding was acetalde ...[more]