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Microbial DNA fingerprinting of human fingerprints: dynamic colonization of fingertip microflora challenges human host inferences for forensic purposes.

International journal of legal medicine - 1 Sept 2010

Tims Sebastian, van Wamel Willem, Endtz Hubert P, van Belkum Alex, Kayser Manfred

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Human fingertip microflora is transferred to touched objects and may provide forensically relevant information on individual hosts, such as on geographic origins, if endogenous microbial skin species/strains would be retrievable from physical fingerprints and would carry geographically restricted DNA diversity. We tested the suitability of physical fingerprints for revealing human host information, with...

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PMID: 19551400
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-009-0352-9
PMCID: PMC2955242

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