Forensic science international 211(1-3) 9-18 2011年9月 [査読有り]
We previously applied our method of detecting marine or freshwater bacterioplankton (bacteria) in the blood of immersed victims as a marker of drowning. However, we did not confirm the absence of post-mortem bacterial invasion during immersion. He...
The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology 32(3) 269-74 2011年9月 [査読有り]
We collected 68 fresh, brackish, and seawater samples from various sites around the estuaries of 2 rivers at high and low tides. Seawater flowed approximately 2.4 (salinity, 2.2% at the site) and 1.2 km (1.8%) upstream of the estuaries, but the su...
Forensic science international 204(1-3) 80-7 2011年1月 [査読有り]
Numbers and types of bacterioplankton proliferating in blood samples mixed with water of various salinity levels were examined to determine the characteristics of species associated with salinity. Water samples (total n=88) were collected from the...
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 12(4) 195-9 2010年7月 [査読有り]
A decomposed female body with an open abdomen and pleural cavity washed up on a beach after a powerful typhoon. Autopsy findings could not determine the cause of death because of leaching and putrefaction. Numbers and types of diatoms in organs ov...
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 12(4) 203-7 2010年7月 [査読有り]
Two newborn infants (one male and one female) were discovered dead and frozen in a home freezer. Although thawing is expected to lead to changes that may hamper postmortem investigations, the victims could not be examined in the frozen state and w...