Science & Justice
Volume 47, Issue 3 , Pages 136-140 , November 2007

Fingerprint recovery from human skin surfaces

  • Matej Trapecar

      Affiliations

    • Forensic Laboratory and Research Centre, Police, Ministry of the Interior, Stefanova 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +386 1 47 24 462; fax: +386 1 47 34 789.
  • ,
  • Joze Balazic

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Korytkova 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
    • Tel.: +386 1 543 72 00; fax: +386 1 52 44 974.

Received 31 March 2006 ,Revised 30 August 2006 ,Accepted 18 January 2007.

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 This article was previously published in Kriminalistik (a German language journal).

PII: S1355-0306(07)00022-6

doi: 10.1016/j.scijus.2007.01.002

Science & Justice
Volume 47, Issue 3 , Pages 136-140 , November 2007