Touch DNA: impact of handling time on touch deposit and evaluation of different recovery techniques: An experimental

Francesco Sessa1, Monica Salerno2, Giuseppe Bertozzi2

  • 1Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Legal Medicine, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy. francesco.sessa@unifg.it.

Scientific Reports
|July 4, 2019
PubMed

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