Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 195-199 , July 2010

Freshwater bacterioplankton cultured from liver, kidney and lungs of a decomposed cadaver retrieved from a sandy seashore: Possibility of drowning in a river and then floating out to sea

  • Eiji Kakizaki

      Affiliations

    • Section of Legal Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake-cho, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 985 85 0991; fax: +81 985 85 6406.
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  • Shuji Kozawa

      Affiliations

    • Section of Legal Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake-cho, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan
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  • Hirokazu Matsuda

      Affiliations

    • Division of Medical Technology, Institute of Health Science, Junshin Junior College, 1-1-1 Chikushigaoka, Minami-ku, Fukuoka 815-8510, Japan
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  • Eri Muraoka

      Affiliations

    • Section of Legal Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake-cho, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan
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  • Taketo Uchiyama

      Affiliations

    • Section of Legal Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake-cho, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan
    • Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Miyazaki Prefectural Police, 1-8-28 Asahi, Miyazaki-shi, Miyazaki 880-8509, Japan
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  • Masahiro Sakai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry and Applied Biosciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, 1-1 Gakuenkibanadai-Nishi, Miyazaki-shi, Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan
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  • Nobuhiro Yukawa

      Affiliations

    • Section of Legal Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake-cho, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan

Received 24 November 2009 ,Revised 26 March 2010 ,Accepted 26 March 2010.

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☆ Presented in part at the 90th Congress of the Japanese Society of Legal Medicine (Fukuoka 2006).

PII: S1344-6223(10)00042-8

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.03.008

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 195-199 , July 2010

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