Forensic epidemiology

Daughton CG (2011) Illicit drugs contaminants in the environment and utility in forensic epidemiology. In Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology, USEPA Ed. Las Vegas, NV, pp 59-110... 

With this in mind, a more accurate descriptive term should be considered in order to better unify the pubhshed literatme. One possibility could be Forensic Epidemiology Using Drags in Sewage (FEUDS). Use of a tmique term and acrortym would... 

Loue, S. 2010. Forensic Epidemiology Integrating Public Health and Law Enforcement. Jones and Bartlett, Boston, MA http //www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763738495/. 

Ruttenber, A.J., Lawler-Haevener, J., Wetli, C.V., Hearn, W.L., and Mash, D.C. Fatal excited delirium following cocaine use epidemiologic findings provide evidence for new mechanisms of cocaine toxicity. J. Forensic Toxicol. 42 25, 1997. 

Karch, Steven B. Karch s Pathology of Drug Abuse. 4th edition. Boca Raton CRC Press, 2009. This comprehensive volume contains much technical information for toxicologists, forensic scientists, and pathologists. However, it also contains some sections on the history and epidemiology of... 

Baumgartner, W. A. and Hill, V. A., Hair analysis for drugs of abuse clinical, epidemiological and criminal justice field studies, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Meeting on Clinical and Forensic Aspects of Hair Analysis, Genoa, Italy, 1994. 

Jakobsson SW, Rajs J, Jonsson JA, et al. (1991) Poisoning with sodium hypochlorite solution Report of a fatal case, supplemented with an experimental and clinico-epidemiological study. American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 12 320-327. 

Serologic tests are not helpful in suspected outbreaks of tularemia. Serum antibody levels typically reach diagnostic levels 10 or more days after illness onset, far too late for identifying or managing an outbreak. However, serologic studies may be useful for forensic or epidemiologic purposes. Most laboratory tests detect... 

In recent years life science researchers have become more earnest in their considerations that trace elements have important roles in physiology and pathology. So far, some of these experimenters have used activation analysis (1) to measure the elemental contents of biological tissues and fluids (2) to determine if a correlation exists between abnormal trace element concentration and certain types of diseases (3) as an investigational method for epidemiological functions (4) to measure metabolic functions (5) as a clinical and investigational method for toxicology (6) in total body in vivo studies (7) in in vivo studies with stable tracers and (8) in individual identifications for forensic requirements. 

These criteria are obviously interrelated. An excellent choice of a Pb-exposure biomarker on diagnostic or predictive grounds is only acceptable if it can be broadly applied and quantified in the biological medium of interest. Methodology for sampling and measurement must be sensitive, specific, and have steps that minimize random or systematic errors, such as random or systematic Pb contamination of samples. Exposure measurements which can be quantified must also be linked to dose—toxic response relationships and have a wide level of acceptance in terms of diagnostic, epidemiological, or forensic applicability. 

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