Kenawy, M., Abdel-Hamid, Y. (2019). Medico-Legal Forensic Entomology “Use of Insects in Death Investigations”- A Review. Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, E. Medical Entomology & Parasitology, 11(2), 59-74. doi: 10.21608/eajbse.2019.61865
Mohamed A. Kenawy; Yousrya M. Abdel-Hamid. "Medico-Legal Forensic Entomology “Use of Insects in Death Investigations”- A Review". Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, E. Medical Entomology & Parasitology, 11, 2, 2019, 59-74. doi: 10.21608/eajbse.2019.61865
Kenawy, M., Abdel-Hamid, Y. (2019). 'Medico-Legal Forensic Entomology “Use of Insects in Death Investigations”- A Review', Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, E. Medical Entomology & Parasitology, 11(2), pp. 59-74. doi: 10.21608/eajbse.2019.61865
Kenawy, M., Abdel-Hamid, Y. Medico-Legal Forensic Entomology “Use of Insects in Death Investigations”- A Review. Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, E. Medical Entomology & Parasitology, 2019; 11(2): 59-74. doi: 10.21608/eajbse.2019.61865
Medico-Legal Forensic Entomology “Use of Insects in Death Investigations”- A Review
1Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo 11566, Egypt
2Research Institute of Medical Entomology, The General Organization for Institutes and Teaching Hospitals, Ministry of Health, Dokki, Giza, Egypt
Abstract
The present paper reviews the different aspects of forensic entomology (definition, history, carrion’s decomposition stages, and their associated insects/arthropods, utility in solving crimes, methods of collecting entomological evidence at death site and situation in Egypt). These are important information for interesting people and officials who are willing to make use of such aspect as a helping tool to solve crimes.
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