Bacterial Succession in Microbial Biofilm as a Potential Indicator for Postmortem Submersion Interval Estimation.

ABSTRACT: Bacteria acts as the main decomposer during the process of biodegradation by microbial communities in the ecosystem. Numerous studies have revealed the bacterial succession patterns during carcass decomposition in the terrestrial setting. The machine learning algorithm-generated models based on such temporal succession patterns have been developed for the postmortem interval (PMI) estimation. However, the bacterial succession that occurs on decomposing carcasses in the aquatic environment is poorly understood. In the forensic practice, the postmortem submersion interval (PMSI), which approximately equals to the PMI in most of the common drowning cases, has long been problematic to determine. In the present study, bacterial successions in the epinecrotic biofilm samples collected from the d

SUBMITTER: Dmitrijs F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9356301 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature