TY - JOUR
T1 - Expansion of microbial forensics
AU - Schmedes, Sarah E.
AU - Sajantila, Antti
AU - Budowle, Bruce
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2016 David et al.
PY - 2016/8
Y1 - 2016/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1128/JCM.00046-16
DO - 10.1128/JCM.00046-16
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26912746
AN - SCOPUS:84979642626
SN - 0095-1137
VL - 54
SP - 1964
EP - 1974
JO - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
JF - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
IS - 8
ER -