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Letter to the Editor regarding the article “Mummification in a forensic context: an observational study of taphonomic changes and the post‑mortem interval in an indoor setting”

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  1. Laboratory of Forensic Histopathology and Forensic Microbiology, Section of Legal and Insurance Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Luigi Mangiagalli Street, 37 - 20133, Milan, Italy

    Stefano Tambuzzi, Guendalina Gentile & Riccardo Zoja

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TS and GG equally contributed to this work: writing—original draft, writing— review and editing, conceptualization, investigation, methodology, and data curation. RZ is guarantor of the project, directed the study, and devised the main conceptual idea of the paper.

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Tambuzzi, S., Gentile, G. & Zoja, R. Letter to the Editor regarding the article “Mummification in a forensic context: an observational study of taphonomic changes and the post‑mortem interval in an indoor setting”. Int J Legal Med 137, 1309–1310 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-023-03002-4

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