Clinical features of blister beetle poisoning in equids: 70 cases (1983-1996)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 211, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1018-1021

  Helman, R G ^a   Edwards, W C ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CANTHARIDIN; MAGNESIUM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; COLIC; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INTOXICATION; MALE; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH JUICE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CALCIUM; CANTHARIDIN; COLIC; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EQUIDAE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MAGNESIUM; MALE; POISONING;

EID: 0031572532     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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