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Characterization and postmortem diagnosis of fatal heatstroke using Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy combined with chemometrics

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Pages 372-382 | Received 01 Jan 2020, Accepted 19 Apr 2020, Published online: 12 May 2020

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