Expansion of Microbial Forensics

Overview

Journal J Clin Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2016 Feb 26

PMID 26912746

Citations 32

Authors

Sarah E Schmedes

Antti Sajantila

Bruce Budowle

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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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