2025

  • Naidoo, ALK, Martin, DP, Heathfield, LJ. 2025. Establishment of performance parameters for the Qubit™ 1X dsDNA HS Assay for use in forensic genetics casework. Forensic Sci Int: Reports. 100405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsir.2025.100405
  • Martin, DL.P., Heathfield, L.J. 2025. Systematic optimisation of crude buccal swab lysate protocols for use with the ForenSeq™ DNA Signature Prep Kit. Int J Leg Med. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-024-03405-x

2024

  • Grobbelaar J, Vuko LAM, Davies B, Pearce B, Musiyandaka FL, Heathfield LJ. 2024. Longitudinal assessment of DNA recovery from post-mortem whole blood stored in EDTA, sodium fluoride/potassium oxalate and additive-free tubes. Int J Leg Med. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-024-03384-z 
  • Craig W, Hartnady N, Naidoo N, Martin LJ, Artz L. 2024. Paramedic educational interventions for out-of-hospital domestic and intimate partner violence cases: A scoping review. Paramedicine. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1177/27536386241265416 
  • Liebling HJ, Barrett HR, Artz L, Shahid A. 2024. Viable justice: survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and/or torture amongst South Sudanese refugees living in settlements in Northern Uganda. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care. 20(1):125-47. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-12-2022-0121 
  • Nagdee M, Artz L, Subramaney U, Young C, Pieterse A, Pettitt J. 2024. The gendered context of women charged with violent offences in the forensic psychiatric setting. S Afr J Psychiat. 30:a2222. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v30i0.2222
  • Kotze D, Mole CG, Phillips VM, Gibbon VE. 2024. Exploring optimal methods for age-at-death estimation using pulp/tooth area ratios: A South African study. Int J Leg Med. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-024-03360-7 
  • Swart ML, Vandayar Y, Mole CG, Oghenechovwen O, Hamadziripi D, Heathfield LJ. 2024. A 10-year retrospective analysis of sudden unexpected death in the young investigated at Salt River Mortuary, Cape Town. Int J Leg Med. In press. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-024-03331-y 
  • Smith JH, Lynch V, Amankwaa AO, Budowle B, Fonseca SA, Shako SK, Molefe I. 2024. 4th DNA Forensic Symposium: Challenges and future directions in Africa. Forensic Sci Int: Synergy. 9:100555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2024.100555 
  • Mole CG, Sealy J, Stynder DD, Le Roux PJ, Gibbon VE. 2024. Bioarchaeology and evidence of violence from a precolonial Later Stone Age communal burial in South Africa. PLoS One. 19(9):e0310421. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310421 
  • Maqungo M, Nannan N, Nojilana B, Nichols E, Morof D, Cheyip M, Rao C, Lombard C, Price J, Kahn K, Martin LJ, Bezuidenhout F, Laubscher R, Kabudula C, Glass T, Awotiwon O, Zinyakatira N, Funani N, Joubert J, Bradshaw D, Groenewald P. 2024. Can verbal autopsies be used on a national scale? Key findings and lessons from South Africa's national cause-of-death validation study. Glob Heal Act. 17: 2399413. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2024.2399413 
  • Prinsloo M, Mhlongo S, Roomaney RA, Marineau L, Mamashela TA, Dekel B, Bradshaw D, Martin LJ, Lombard C, Jewkes R, Abrahams N, Matzopoulos R. 2024. Injury mortality in South Africa: a 2009 and 2017 comparison to track progress to meeting sustainable development goal targets. Glob Heal Act. 17: 2377828. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2024.2377828 
  • Adetimehin AD, Mole CG, Finaughty DA, Heyns M. 2024. Unidirectional dispersal of blow fly larvae following decomposition fluids from a pig carcass. S Afr J Sci. 120(7/8): 17589. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2024/17589 
  • Chang E, Abrahams S, Mole CG. 2024. Hiding the evidence: Preliminary investigation of heat-induced alterations to pre-existing saw mark trauma. Forensic Sci Int. 361: 112142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2024.112142 
  • Mutithu DW, Aremu OO, Mokaila D, Bana T, Familusi M, Taylor L, Martin LJ, Heathfield LJ, Kirwan JA, Weisner L, Adeola HA, Lumngwena EN, Manganyi R, Skatulla S, Naidoo R, Ntusi NAB. 2024. A study protocol to characterise pathophysiological and molecular markers of rheumatic heart disease and degenerative aortic stenosis using multiparametric cardiovascular imaging and multiomics techniques. Plos One. 19(5): e0303496. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303496 
  • Awath-Behari A, Martin LJ. 2024. Death by electrocution: A retrospective analysis of three medico-legal mortuaries in the Ethekwini district of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa from 2006 to 2016. Burns Open. 8(3):175-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burnso.2024.04.002 
  • Whittaker AL, Heathfield LJ. 2024. The first X-STR population study for the South African population. Forensic Sci Int: Reports. 9: 100359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsir.2024.100359 
  • Abrahams N, Mhlongo S, Chirwa E, Dekel B, Ketelo A, Lombard C, Shai N, Ramsoomar L, Mathews S, Labuschagne G, Matzopoulos R, Prinsloo M, Martin LJ, Jewkes R. 2024. Femicide, intimate partner femicide, and nonintimate partner femicide in South Africa: An analysis of 3 national surveys, 1999–2017. PLoS Med. 21(1):e1004330. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004330 
  • Heathfield LJ, Nel L, Reid KM. 2024. Evaluation of the Investigator® 24plex GO! kit and associated allele frequency data for four South African population groups. Forensic Sci Int: Reports. 100357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsir.2024.100357 
  • Davies B, Du Toit C, Hlela MBKM. 2024. Fire deaths in Cape town, South Africa:  A retrospective review of medico-legal and toxicological findings (2006 – 2018). Burns. 50(4):1011-1023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2024.01.001 

2023

  • Adetimehin AD, Mole CG, Finaughty DA, Heyns M. 2023. Incidental observation of bone modification by Crematogaster cf. liengmei (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cape Town, South Africa. Forensic Sci Med Pathol. 20: 1121-1126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-023-00714-2 
  • Theron M, Artz L, Nel JH, Senekal M. 2023. Predictors of Body Mass Index and Maximum Handgrip Strength in 18–21 Year-Old on Remand Detainees on Entry into a South African Correctional Facility. Child and Youth Services. 44(2): 145-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2022.2044772 
  • Adetimehin AD, Mole CG, Finaughty DA, Heyns M. 2023. Parasitic and predatory behavior of Alysia manducator (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on blow fly larvae feeding on an adult pig carcass in the Western Cape Province of South Africa – preliminary observations and forensic implications. Int J Leg Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-023-03001-5 
  • Heathfield LJ, Martin, LJ, van der Heyde Y, Molefe I, Ramesar R. 2023. Clinical exome sequencing elucidates underlying cause of death in sudden unexpected death of infants: two case reports. Int J Leg Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-023-03065-3 
  • Kootbodien T, Bantjes J, Joska J, Asmal L, Chiliza B, Stallones L, Holtman Z, Martin LJ, Ramesar RS, London L. 2023. Healthcare Utilization 12 Months Prior to Fatal and Non-fatal Suicidal Behaviour in Cape Town, South Africa. Arch Suicide Res. 28(1):216-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2022.2152767 
  • Kootbodien T, London L, Martin LJ, Defo J, Ramesar R. 2023. The shared genetic architecture of suicidal behaviour and psychiatric disorders: A genomic structural equation modelling study. Front Genet. 14:1083969. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2023.1083969 
  • Matzopoulos R, Prinsloo MR, Mhlongo S, Marineau L, Cornell M, Bowman B, Mamashela TA, Gwebushe N, Ketelo A, Martin LJ, Dekel B, Lombard C, Jewkes R, Abrahams N. 2023. South Africa's male homicide epidemic hiding in plain sight: Exploring sex differences and patterns in homicide risk in a retrospective descriptive study of postmortem investigations. PLOS Glob Public Health. 3(11):e0002595. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002595 
  • Rowbotham SK, Mole CG, de Boer HH, Cordner SM, Blau S. 2023. Differentiating fatal one-punch assaults from standing height falls based on skeletal trauma: a pilot study. Aus J Forensic Sci. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2023.2292126 
  • Groenewald P, Kallis N, Holmgren C, Glass T, Anthony A, Maud P, Akhalwaya Y, Afonso E, Niewoudt I, Martin LJ, de Vaal C, Cheyip M, Morof D, Prinsloo M, Matzopooulos R, Bradshaw D. 2023. Further evidence of misclassification of injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed? S Afr Med J. 113(9):e836. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2023.v113i9.836 
  • Suwlowska H, Ali J, de Almeida JR, Fonseca SA, Heathfield LJ, Keyes CA, Lukande R, Martin LJ, Reid KM, Vaswani V, Wasti H, Wilson RO, Parker M, Kingori P. 2023. “The Nobodies”: unidentified dead bodies—a global health crisis requiring urgent attention. Lancet Glob Health. 11(11):e1691 - e1693. https://doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00420-5 
  • Mole CG, Stynder DD, Gibbon VE. 2023. Traumatic cubitus valgus consequent of distal humeral fracture: Two case studies from the Holocene Later Stone Age in southern Africa. Int J Paleopathol. 43:7 - 15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2023.07.001 
  • Mole CG, Stynder DD, Sealy JC, Gibbon VE. 2023. Precolonial violence: Analysis of traumatic injuries from a communal burial site in South Africa. In: Program of the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists. Am J Biol Anthr. 180:120. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24731 
  • Rowbotham S, Mole CG, Tieppo D, Blaszkowsska M, Cordner S, Blau S. 2023. Average thickness of the bones of the human neurocranium: Development of reference measurements to assist with blunt force trauma interpretations. Int J Leg Med. 137:195-213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02824-y 
  • Baliso A, Heathfield LJ, Gibbon VE. 2023. Informing regional taphonomy research using retrospective forensic anthropology cases in the Western Cape, South Africa. Sci Justice. 63: 164-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2022.12.003
  • Baliso A, Heathfield LJ, Gibbon VE. 2023. Forensic human identification: retrospective investigation of anthropological assessments in the Western Cape, South Africa. Int J Leg Med. 137:793-807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02870-6 
  • Muleya J, Vuko L, Mader J, Davies B. 2023. Thoracic cavity fluid as an alternative specimen for carboxyhaemoglobin measurement in post-mortem toxicology. Forensic Sci Int. 349: 111731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2023.111731 
  • Reid KM, Martin LJ, Heathfield LJ. 2023. Understanding the burden of unidentified bodies: A systematic review. Int J Leg Med. 137: 1193–1202. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-023-02968-5 
  • Davies B, Hlela MBKM, Rother H. 2023. Child and adolescent mortality associated with pesticide toxicity in Cape Town, South Africa, 2010–2019: a retrospective case review. BMC Public Health. 23:792. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15652-5 
  • Navsaria PH, Marineau LA, Maqungo S, Prinsloo M, Molefe IJ, Hodkinson P. 2023. The firearm pandemic: Time to act and flatten the curve. S Afr Med J. 113:113-114. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2023.v113i3.316 
  • Nicholson TJ, Hoddinott G, Seddon JA, Claasens MM, Van der Zalm MM, Lopez E, Bock P, Caldwell J, Da Costa D, de Vaal C, Dunbar R, Du Preez K, Hesseling AC, Joseph K, Kriel E, Lovedday M, Marx FM, Meehan S, Purchase S, Naidoo K, Naidoo L, Solomon-Da Costa F, Sloot R, Osman M. 2023. A systematic review of risk factors for mortality among tuberculosis patients in South Africa. Systematic Reviews 0.515972222222222. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02175-8 
  • Bachan V, Molefe I, Davies B. 2023. Investigating blood alcohol concentrations in injury-related deaths before and during the COVID-19 National lockdown in Western Cape, South Africa: A cross-sectional retrospective review. S Afr Med J. 113(6): 50-56. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2023.v113i6.372 

2022

  • Adetimehin AD, Mole CG, Finaughty DA, Heyns M. 2022. Caught in the act: impact of Crematogaster cf. liengmei (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) necrophagous behavior on neonate pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus L.) in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Int J Leg Med. 138(1):259-266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02835-9 
  • Speelman AC, Engel-Hills PC, Martin LJ, van Rijn RR, Offiah AC. 2022. Postmortem computed tomography plus forensic autopsy for determining the cause of death in child fatalities. Paed Radiol. 52: 2620 - 2629. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-022-05406-7 
  • Hlela MBKM, du Toit C, Davies B. 2022. The role of alcohol and drug intoxication in fire-related incidents in Africa: A systematic review. Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters. 35:278-299. 
  • Finaughty C, Heathfield LJ, Kemp V, Marquez-Grant N. 2022. Forensic DNA extraction methods for human hard tissue: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of technologies and sample type. Forensic Sci Int: Genetics. 63:102818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2022.102818 
  • Rowbotham S, Mole CG, Tieppo D, Blaszkowsska M, Cordner S, Blau S. 2022. Reference measurements for average human neurocranial bone density to inform head trauma interpretations. Aus J Forensic Sci. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2022.2141320 
  • Dinkele ES, Kirk G, Martin LJ. 2022. Medico-legal death investigation systems - South Africa. Sri Lanka J Forensic Med Sci Law. 13 (special issue): 50-52. https://doi.org/10.4038/sljfmsl.v13i0.7922 
  • Mole CG, Gibbon VE, Stynder DD. 2022. Patterns of trauma and violence in a Later Stone Age sample from southern Africa. In: Program of the 91st Annual meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA), March 23 – April 1, 2022. Am J Biol Anthr. 77(S73): 127. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24514 
  • Gibbon VE, Finaughty C, Moller I, Finaughty DA. 2022. Pressing need for national governmental recognition of forensic anthropology in South Africa as illustrated in a medico-legal case. Sci Justice. 62:411-417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2022.05.003 
  • Heathfield LJ, Hitewa AN, Gibbon A, Mole CG. 2022. The effect of nucleospin forensic filters on DNA recovery from trace DNA swabs. Sci Justice. 62: 284 - 287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2022.03.001 
  • Vandayar Y, Heathfield LJ. 2022. A review of the causes and risk factors for sudden unexpected death in the young. Forensic Sci Med Pathol. 18: 186-196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-021-00444-3 
  • Viljoen R, Reid KM, Mole CG, Rangwaga M, Heathfield LJ. 2022. Towards molecular autopsies: Development of a FFPE tissue DNA extraction workflow. Sci Justice. 62(2): 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2021.12.005 

2021

  • Taylor L, Ameen OS, Zaharie SD. 2021. Complete Clinicopathological Case Report of a Young Patient Dying of COVID-19-Related Stroke. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 42(2): 160-163. https://doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0000000000000668 
  • JF Kelly, A Faull, A Dissel, B Simelane, L Martin et al. 2021. Murder in the Western Cape’s High Violence Areas During the first COVID-19 Lockdown. J Acta Criminologica. 34(3): 118-138. https://doi.org/10.10520/ejc-crim_v34_n3_a8 
  • Heathfield, L.J., Watkins, H., Martin, L.J., and Ramesar, R.S. 2021. Massively parallel sequencing of 43 arrhythmia genes in a selected SUDI cohort from Cape Town. Journal of Pediatric Genetics. In press. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1726471 
  • Müller A, Daskilewicz K, Kabwe ML, Mmolai-Chalmers A, Morroni C, et al.. 2021. Experience of and factors associated with violence against sexual and gender minorities in nine African countries: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 21(): 357. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10314-w 
  • Meer T, Müller A. 2021. Making ‘meanwhile. . .’: Representing queer African youth through spontaneous collaborative graphic autoethnography. Qualitative Research. 23(2): 323–342. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211028801
  • Artz L, Swanepoel M, Nagdee M, Combrinck H, Kaliski S, Stein DJ, Butterworth J. 2021. ICD-11 Paraphilic Disorders: A South African Analysis of Its Utility in the Medico-Legal Context. Journal of Sexual Medicine. 18(3): 526-538. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2020.12.005 
  • Bennett, T., Martin, L.J., and Heathfield, L.J. 2021. Local recommendations for death scene investigation of SUDI cases based on prospective observations. South African Medical Journal. 111(5) 448-452. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2021.v111i5.15305 
  • Heathfield, L.J., Haikney, T., Mole, C.G., Finaughty, C., Zachou, A.M. and Gibbon, V.E. 2021. Forensic human identification: Investigation into tooth morphotype and DNA extraction methods from teeth. Science and Justice. 61, 4, 339-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2021.05.005 
  • Baliso A, Heathfield LJ, Gibbon VE. 2021. Identification of the deceased: A retrospective review of Forensic Anthropology Cape Town casework (abstract): In: Program of the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. American J Phys Anthr. 174:7-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24262 
  • Bennett T, Gibbon VE, Taylor LD, Heathfield LJ. 2021. Sex estimation for forensic human identification: a case report of discordance between anthropological assessment and DNA analysis (abstract). In: Program of the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. American J Phys Anthr. 174: 9-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24262 
  • Winterbach, M., Hattingh, C. and Heathfield, L.J. 2021. Retrospective study of sudden unexpected death of infants in the Garden Route and Central Karoo districts of South Africa: causes of death and epidemiological factors. South African Journal of Child Health. A15(2), 74-82.

2020

  • Emrith TS, Mole CG, Heyns M. 2020. The production of butterfly fractures during bending impact and its use in interpreting impact direction. Aust J Forensic Sci. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2020.1781252 
  • Reid, K.M. and Heathfield, L.J. 2020. Evaluation of direct PCR for routine DNA profiling of non-decomposed deceased individuals. Science and Justice. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2020.08.004
  • Artz L, Klazinga L, Müller A. 2020. Sexual and gender-based violence and HIV in South Africa: An HIV facility-based study. S Afr M J. 110(5): 377-381. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2020.v110i5.13942 
  • Liebling H, Barrett H, Artz L. 2020. South Sudanese refugee survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and torture: Health and justice services responses in Northern Uganda. Int J Environ Res Pub Health. 17(5):1685-1706. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051685 
  • Liebling H, Barrett H, Artz L. 2020. Sexual and gender-based violence and torture experiences of Sudanese refugees in Northern Uganda: Health and justice response. International journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 16(4): 389-414. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-10-2019-0081 
  • Wykes M, Artz L. 2020. What's law got to do with it?' Comparing the failure to deter or convict rapists in the United Kingdom and South Africa. International Review of Victimology. 26(2):212-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269758019886510
  • Finaughty, C., Reid, K.M., Alli, I.H. and Heathfield, L.J. 2020. A first for forensic genetics in Africa: successful identification of skeletal remains from the marine environment using massively parallel sequencing. Forensic Science International: Genetics. 49, 102370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2020.102370 
  • Heathfield, L.J., Martin, L.J., and Ramesar, R.S. 2020. A 5-year retrospective analysis of infant death at Salt River Mortuary, Cape Town. South African Journal of Child Health. 14(3). https://doi.org/10.7196/SAJCH.2020.v14i3.1720 
  • Heathfield LJ, Bhengu W, Louw S, Martin LJ, Ramesar RS. 2020. Assessment of candidate variants causative of inborn metabolic diseases in SUDI cases in South Africa, and a case report.  Int J Legal Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-020-02337-6 
  • Reid, K.M., and Heathfield, L.J. 2020. Allele frequency data for 23 Y-chromosome short tandem repeats (STRs) for the South African population. Forensic Sci Int: Genetics. 46: 102270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2020.102270 
  • Reid KM, Martin LJ, Heathfield LJ. 2020. Bodies without names: a retrospective review of unidentified decedents at Salt River Medico-Legal Mortuary, South Africa (2010 – 2017). S Afr Med J. 110(3): 223-228. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2020.v110i3.14192 
  • Tawha T, Dinkele E, Mole CG, Gibbon VE. 2020. Assessing zygomatic shape and size for estimating sex and ancestry in a South African sample. Sci Justice. 60(3): 284 – 292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2020.01.003 

2019

  • du Plessis M, Moller I, Liebenberg L. 2019. Double rarity: an unusual case of bromoform poisoning detected by post-mortem radiography. Int J Legal Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-019-02032-1 
  • du Plessis M, Date-Chong M, Liebenberg L. 2019. Lodox®: the invaluable radiographic solution in the forensic setting. Int J Legal Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-019-02116-y 
  • Bennett T, Martin LJ, Heathfield LJ. 2019. A retrospective study of death scene investigation practices for sudden unexpected death of infants (SUDI) in Cape Town, South Africa. Forensic Sci, Med Pathol. 16: 49–56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-019-00206-2 
  • Heathfield LJ, Martin LJ, and Ramesar RS. 2019. Considerations of molecular autopsies in forensic cases of sudden unexpected death in infants and children in South Africa. S Afr J Child Health. 13(1): 2-3. https://doi.org/10.7196/sajch.2019.v13i1.1573 
  • Bennett T, Martin LJ, Heathfield LJ. 2019. Global trends in the extent of death scene investigation performed for sudden and unexpected death of infant (SUDI) cases: A systematic review. Forensic Sci Int. 301: 435-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.06.013 
  • Auckloo MBKM, Davies BB. 2019. Post-mortem toxicology in violent fatalities in Cape Town, South Africa: A preliminary investigation. J Forensic Leg Med. 63: 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2019.02.005 
  • Heathfield LJ, Martin LJ, and Ramesar, RS. 2019. Massively parallel sequencing in sudden unexpected death in infants: a case report in South Africa. Forensic Sci Int: Genet Suppl Ser. 7(1): 459-461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigss.2019.10.051 
  • Finaughty C, Gibbon VE, Speed B, Heathfield LJ. 2019. Lost at sea: A pilot study investigating DNA recovery from teeth in a South African natural marine environment. Forensic Sci Int: Genet Suppl Ser. 7(1): 580-581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigss.2019.10.097 
  • Reid KM, Martin LJ, Heathfield LJ. 2019. Evaluation of DNA profiles obtained from deceased individuals at Salt River Mortuary (South Africa).  Aust J Forensic Sci. 51:sup1, S48-S51. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2019.1569149 
  • Mathews S, Abrahams N, Martin LJ, Lombard C, Jewkes R. 2019. Homicide pattern among adolescents: a national epidemiological study of child homicide in South Africa. PLoS ONE. 14(8):e0221415. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221415 
  • Mole CG, Heyns M. 2019. Animal models in forensic science research: justified use or ethical exploitation? Sci Eng Ethics. 25(4): 1095-1110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-018-0053-1 
  • Mole CG. 2019. Trends in manner and cause of death over a 10 year period (2007 – 2016) at a regional forensic pathology facility, Cape Town, South Africa. Aust J Forensic Sci. 51: S197 – 200. https://doi.org/0.1080/00450618.2019.1569134 

2018

2017

  • Peddle L, Kirk GM. 2017. Post-mortem organ weights at a South African Mortuary. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 38: 277 – 282. https://doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0000000000000340 
  • du Plessis M, du Toit-Prinsloo L. 2017. Venous air embolism: An under-recognised entity in blunt-force trauma and the importance of radiology. Med Sci Law. 57(2): 95-99. https://doi.org/10.1177/0025802417699346 
  • Abrahams N, Mathews S, Lombard C, Martin LJ, Jewkes R. 2017. Sexual homicides in South Africa: A national cross-sectional epidemiological study of adult women and children. PLoS ONE. 12(10): e0186432. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186432 
  • Heathfield LJ, Maistry S, Martin LJ, Ramesar RS, de Vries J. 2017. Ethical considerations of forensic genetics research on tissue samples collected post-mortem. BMC Med Ethics. 18(66): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-017-0225-6 
  • Clark C, Mole CG, Heyns M. 2017. Patterns of blunt force homicide in the West Metropole of the City of Cape Town, South Africa. S Afr J Sci. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2017/20160214
  • Reid KM, Maistry S, Ramesar RS, Heathfield LJ. 2017. A review of the optimisation of the use of formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue for molecular analysis in a forensic post-mortem setting. Forensic Sci Int. 280: 181-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.09.020 

2016

  • Abrahams N, Mathews S, Martin LJ, Lombard C. 2016. Gender differences in homicide of neonates, infants, and children under 5 y in South Africa: Results from the cross-sectional 2009 National Child Homicide Study. PLoS Med. 13(4):e1002003. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002003 
  • Groenewald P, Bradshaw D, Neethling I, Martin, LJ, Dempers J, Morden, E. 2016. Linking mortuary data improves vital statistics on cause of death of children under five years in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Trop Med Int Health. 21(1):114–121. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.12624 
  • Mathews S, Martin LJ, Coetzee D, Scott C, Brijmohun Y. 2016. Child deaths in South Africa: lessons from the child death review pilot. S Afr Med J. 06(9):851–852. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i9.11382.4 
  • Mathews S, Martin LJ, Coetzee D, Scott C, Naidoo T, Brijmohun Y, et al. 2016. The South African child death review pilot: A multiagency approach to strengthen healthcare and protection for children. S Afr Med J. 106(9): 895-9. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i9.11234 
  • Maistry S, Phillips V. Case Report: A self-inflicted bite mark. 2016. S Afr Dent J. 71(2):77–76.
  • Mathews S, Martin LJ. 2016. Developing an understanding of fatal child abuse and neglect: Results from the South African child death review pilot study. S Afr Med J. 106: 12. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2016.V106I12.12130 

2015

  • Kasu M, Shires K. 2015. The validation of forensic DNA extraction systems to utilize soil contaminated biological evidence. Leg Med. 17(4):232–238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2015.01.004 
  • Matzopoulos R, Prinsloo M, Wyk VP, Gwebushe N, Mathews S, Martin LJ. et al. 2015. Injury-related mortality in South Africa: a retrospective descriptive study of post-mortem investigations. Bull World Health Organ. 93:303–313. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.14.145771 
  • Mole CG, Heyns M, Cloete T. 2015. How hard is hard enough? An investigation of the force associated with lateral blunt force trauma to the porcine cranium. Leg Med (Tokyo). 17(1): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2014.07.008 
  • Tredoux S, Mfolozi S, Shires, K. 2015. Efficiency of buccal DNA sampling device in the mortuary. J Forensic Inves. 3(2):1–6.

2014

  • Heathfield L. 2014. Policy required for entry of DNA profiles onto the National Forensic DNA Database of South Africa. S Afr J Sci. 110(7/8):1–3. https://doi.org/10.1590/sajs.2014/20130374 
  • Heathfield LJ, Dalvie S, Kalideen K, Dandara C. 2014. Novel CYP2E1 haplotype identified in a South African cohort. S Afr J Sci. 110(9/10):1-5. https://doi.org/10.1590/sajs.2014/20130324 
  • Naidoo N, Artz L, Martin LJ, Mustafa Z. 2014. “A stitch in time…may save nine”: A systematic synthesis of the evidence for domestic violence management and prevention in Emergency Care. Afr Safety Promo Journal. 12(2):30–48.

2013

  • Campbell NM, Colville JG, van der Heyde Y, van As AB. 2013. Firearm injuries to children in Cape Town, South Africa: impact of the 2004 Firearms Control Act. S Afr J Surg. 51(3):92-6. https://doi.org/10.7196/sajs.1220 
  • Abrahams N, Mathews S, Martin LJ, Lombard C, Jewkes R. 2013. Intimate partner femicide in South Africa in 1999 and 2009. PLoS Med. 10(4):e1001412. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001412 
  • Mathews S, Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ. 2013. Underreporting child abuse deaths: experiences from a national study on child homicide. S Afr Med J. 103(3):123-3. 
  • Naidoo N, Knight SE, Martin LJ. 2013. Conspicuous by its absence: Domestic violence intervention in South African pre-hospital emergency care. African Safety Promotion Journal. 11(2): 76-92.
  • Mathews S, Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ, Lombard C. 2013. The epidemiology of child homicides in South Africa. Bull World Health Organ. 91(8):562-8. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.12.117036 

2012

  • N. Abrahams, S. Mathews, R. Jewkes, L. Martin, C. Lombard. 2012. Intimate Femicide In South Africa: Comparing Two Studies 10 Years Apart. Injury Prevention. 18(Supplement 1): A43-A44. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040580d.19 
  • du Plessis M, Hlaise KK. 2012. Homicide-suicide (dyadic death): a case study of double hanging. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 33(3):262-4. https://doi.org/10.1097/PAF.0b013e3182186f67 
  • Roland ME, Myer L, Martin LJ, Maw A, Batra P, Arend E, Coates TJ, Denny LA. 2012. Preventing Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection among sexual assault survivors in Cape Town, South Africa. AIDS Behav. 16(4):990-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-011-9892-3 

2011

  • Van Kets V, Liebenberg L, Wainwright H, Martin L, Gunston G, Alexander R. 2011. Atherosclerotic lesions in the thoracic aorta: a South African anatomical and histological mortuary study. S Afr Med J. 101(6):409-12.
  • Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ, Mathews S. 2011. Forensic Medicine in South Africa: associations between medical practice and legal case progression and outcomes in female murders. PLoS One. 6(12):e28620. https://doi.org/10:1371/journal.prone.0028620 

2010

  • Samuel, C., Maistry, S., Meyer, E. & Whitelaw, A. 2010. Pneumocystis jirovecii infection of the external auditory canal. The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. 11(2): 39-40. https://doi.org/0.4102/sajhivmed.v11i2.233 

2009

  • Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ, Mathews S, Vetten L, Lombard C. 2009. Mortality of women from intimate partner violence in South Africa: a national epidemiology study. Violence Vict. 24(4):546-56. https://doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.24.4.546 
  • Mathews S, Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ, Lombard C. 2009. Alcohol use and its role in female homicieds in the Western Cape, South Africa. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 70(3):321-7. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2009.70.321 
  • Mathews S, Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ, Lombard C, Vetten L. 2009. Injury patterns of female homicide victims in South Africa. J Trauma. 67(1):168-72. https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0b013e318184822f