Citation

Augsburger M, Staub C. Rev. Med. Suisse 2008; 4(164): 1605-1608.

Vernacular Title

La toxicologie forensique, une discipline scientifique en plein essor.

Affiliation

Unité de toxicologie et de chimie forensiques, Centre universitaire romand de medecine légale, Rue du Bugnon 21, 1005 Lausanne. Marc.Augsburger@chuv.ch

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Medecine et Hygiene)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18711973

Abstract

Forensic toxicology has to bring evidence of substances that could have been involved directly or indirectly in the cause of death or that could influence the behaviour of somebody. The increase of the consumption of illegal and legal drugs in modern societies during last decades gave a boost to forensic toxicology. Moreover, improvement with analytical technology gave tools with high degrees of sensitivity and specificity for the screening and quantification of a large amount of substances in various biological specimens, even with very low concentration resulting of a single dose of medication.

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