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Toxicology and Forensic Entomology

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Toxicology is a scientific field with many distinct branches, and as such, its various specialists share distinct interests. For example, for forensic investigations of deaths caused by poisoning, the combined effort of pathology, biology, chemistry and pharmaceutics experts and others is needed. Every detail must be based on sampled evidences of the highest quality and best conditions possible, to be coupled with other information for a conclusive picture of the circumstances of death.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Paulista State University, São Paulo, Brazil

    Lucila Maria Lopes de Carvalho

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  1. FB 16 Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Kennedyallee 104, Frankfurt, 60596, Germany

    Jens Amendt

  2. Forensic Science Program, Chaminade University of Honolulu, Waialae Ave. 3140, Honolulu, 96816-1578, U.S.A.

    M.Lee Goff

  3. Dipto. Scienze per la Salute, Università Molise, Via De Sanctis, Campobasso, 86100, Italy

    Carlo P. Campobasso

  4. Pathologisch-Bakteriologisches Institut, Krankenanstalt Rudolfstiftung, Juchgasse 25, Wien, 1030, Austria

    Martin Grassberger

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de Carvalho, L.M.L. (2009). Toxicology and Forensic Entomology. In: Amendt, J., Goff, M., Campobasso, C., Grassberger, M. (eds) Current Concepts in Forensic Entomology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9684-6_9

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