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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Evaluation of the Microbiome Identification of Forensically Relevant Biological Fluids: A Pilot Study.

Audrey Gouello, Laura Henry, Djamel Chadli-Benhemani, Florian Salipante, Joséphine Gibert, Adeline Boutet-Dubois, Jean-Philippe Lavigne

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. [Advances in the Application of Forensic Microbiome Analysis in Tissue Source Inference].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2025
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  3. Pathological Alterations in Human Blood Microbiome-An Updated Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Audrey GouelloInstitut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale, 95000 Cergy-Pontoise, France.
Laura HenryInstitut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale, 95000 Cergy-Pontoise, France.
Djamel Chadli-BenhemaniInstitut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale, 95000 Cergy-Pontoise, France.
Florian SalipanteService de Biostatistiques, Epidémiologie, Santé Publique et Innovation en Méthodologie, Université Montpellier, CHU Nîmes, 30029 Nîmes, France.ORCID 0000-0002-5367-5058
Joséphine GibertInstitut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale, 95000 Cergy-Pontoise, France.
Adeline Boutet-DuboisVBIC, INSERM U1047, Université Montpellier, Service de Microbiologie et Hygiène Hospitalière, CHU Nîmes, 30908 Nîmes, France.
Jean-Philippe LavigneVBIC, INSERM U1047, Université Montpellier, Service de Microbiologie et Hygiène Hospitalière, CHU Nîmes, 30908 Nîmes, France.ORCID 0000-0002-9484-0304

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In forensic sciences, body fluids, or biological traces, are a major source of information, and their identification can play a decisive role in criminal investigations. Currently, the nature of biological fluids is assessed using immunological, physico-chemical, mRNA and epigenetic methods, but these have limits in terms of sensitivity and specificity. The emergence of next-generation sequencing technologies offers new opportunities to identify the nature of body fluids by determining bacterial communities. The aim of this pilot study was to assess whether analysis of the bacterial communities in isolated and mixed biological fluids could reflect the situation observed in real forensics labs. Several samples commonly encountered in forensic sciences were tested from healthy volunteers: saliva, vaginal fluid, blood, semen and skin swabs. These samples were analyzed alone or in combination in a ratio of 1:1. Sequencing was performed on the Ion Gene Studio

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bacterial communitiesbiological fluidsforensicsidentificationmetagenomicmicrobiomesNGS sequencing

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PMID38248064
PMCPMC10814007

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