The skin defect of a gunshot entrance wound is caused by the retrograde and anterograde displacement of skin particles. In the present study, we investigated whether gunshots to bacterially contaminated skin are associated with the transport of micro-organisms into the bullet path. The shots were fired into composite models of pig skin and gelatin blocks. The outer surface of the skin was covered with a thin layer of a defined bacterial suspension [green fluorescent protein-labelled Escherichia coli in the preliminary test and Staphylococcus epidermidis, DSM 1798, in the main test series]. After the bacterially contaminated fluid had dried, test shots were fired from a distance of 5 and 10 m using calibre .38 Special cartridges with different bullet types (round nose, truncated cone, hollow point and flat nose). Subsequent bacteriological analyses showed that all the bullet tracks in the gelatin serving as tissue simulant contained displaced micro-organisms from the skin surface. The results are presented and discussed with reference to the transport of skin particles into the depth of the wound track.
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