Aplicações da micologia forense no âmbito criminal: uma revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

Forensic Science are interdisciplinary areas that involve several branches of the sciences and whose purpose is the elucidation of crimes through analysis of vestiges, giving support to investigations in the criminal area. Among them, you can highlight the Forensic Mycology using fungi that appear on the surface of corpses to provide information to criminal expertise and can thus be useful as a tool in criminal investigations, determining Interval Post Mortem (IPM), crime scene and deaths caused by intoxication from poisonous fungi and/or inhalation of their spores. A bibliographic research was carried out on the platforms SciELO, PubMed and BIREME in order to find researches related to the use of the forensic mycology in the criminal field. After the survey the precariousness in relation to studies was perceived with fungi of forensic interest, evidenced by the small amount of studies found on the mentioned platforms, totalizing 16 studies. In view of this, to complement this paper work, a search was made on Google Scholar platform which had a satisfactory result compared to the previous search. The biggest amount of available studies was about the use of fungi in determining the IPM, this criterion has a huge importance in the expertise, but not the only one. Few studies were found reporting the use in cases of intoxication and the crime scene determination On the other hand, taxonomic studies are more common, on a sense of use as indicators of IPM. It is necessary the propagation and the execution of more researches in this area, mainly in the North region of Brazil, because in this region there is a huge diversity of fungal species to be identified yet and also exploited for this purpose.