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Expansion of Microbial Forensics. - PubMed - NCBI

Expansion of Microbial Forensics. - PubMed - NCBI



 2016 Aug;54(8):1964-74. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00046-16. Epub 2016 Feb 24.

Expansion of Microbial Forensics.

Abstract

Microbial forensics has been defined as the discipline of applying scientific methods to the analysis of evidence related to bioterrorism, biocrimes, hoaxes, or the accidental release of a biological agent or toxin for attribution purposes. Over the past 15 years, technology, particularly massively parallel sequencing, and bioinformatics advances now allow the characterization of microorganisms for a variety of human forensic applications, such as human identification, body fluid characterization, postmortem interval estimation, and biocrimes involving tracking of infectious agents. Thus, microbial forensics should be more broadly described as the discipline of applying scientific methods to the analysis of microbial evidence in criminal and civil cases for investigative purposes.
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PMID:
 
26912746
 
PMCID:
 
PMC4963497
 [Available on 2017-02-01]
 
DOI:
 
10.1128/JCM.00046-16

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