Acute poisoning with carbamate pesticides: The Cretan experience

Science and Justice - Journal of the Forensic Science Society

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-39

  Tsatsakis, A M ^a   Tsakalof, A K ^a   Siatitsas, Y ^a   Michalodimitrakis, E N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carbamates; Crete; Fatal poisoning; Forensic science; Methomyl; Pesticides; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

CARBAMATE PESTICIDE; CHOLINESTERASE; METHOMYL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; TISSUE LEVEL; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0030045773     PISSN: 13550306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1355-0306(96)72552-2     Document Type: Article

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