Strangulation in sexual homicide: Is it opportunity, victim's vulnerability or sadism?

Although most homicides involve the use of a weapon, some offenders still prefer killing with their own hands, using strangulation. In fact, when disaggregating the various types of homicides, sexual homicide offenders appear as having a preference for "personal weapon" to kill the victim. Personal weapons, such as strangulation, asphyxiation, and beating, are the most commonly used killing methods in sexual homicide.

Evaluation of the MicroScan Colistin Well and Gradient Diffusion Strips for Colistin Susceptibility Testing in .

Many laboratories are unable to perform colistin susceptibility testing. Diffusion-based antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods are not recommended, and not all laboratories have the capacity to perform broth microdilution (BMD). Using a multistep tiered approach, we investigated whether the adapted use of the MicroScan colistin well (4 μg/ml) could enhance laboratory capacity for the detection and subsequent molecular characterization of colistin-resistant For the MicroScan colistin well, categorical agreement with BMD was 92.