Fly larvae: a new toxicological method of investigation in forensic medicine
Kintz, P.; Godelar, B.; Tracqui, A.; Mangin, P.; Lugnier, A.A.; Chaumont, A.J.
Journal of Forensic Sciences 35(1): 204-207
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-1198 PMID: 2313261 Document Number: 352470
Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to achieve because of the absence of blood and urine. Living calliphorid larvae are proposed as a new medium of investigation in forensic science. Five drugs (triazolam, oxazepam, phenobarbital, alimemazine and clomipramine) were identified and assayed in some tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the maggots found on and in the body.