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20447853

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-6-14
pubmed:abstractText
A decomposed female body with an open abdomen and pleural cavity washed up on a beach after a powerful typhoon. Autopsy findings could not determine the cause of death because of leaching and putrefaction. Numbers and types of diatoms in organs overall, suggested the aspiration of fresh or brackish water with low salinity. However, this could not be confirmed because of contamination via the open cavities. We simultaneously investigated the presence of bacterioplankton in liver, kidney and lung homogenates using a modification of our reported bacteriological method. The freshwater bacterioplankton Plesiomonas shigelloides was identified in each of these organs, but marine bacterioplankton were undetectable despite the circumstances under which the body was discovered. The presence of freshwater bacterioplankton reinforced the results of the diatom test, and we concluded that this victim had died of drowning in fresh or brackish water with low salinity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1873-4162
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
195-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
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.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake-cho, Miyazaki, Japan. eijik@med.miyazaki-u.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't