Amaranthus spinosus (Amaranthaceae) poisoning in sheep in southern Brazil;Intoxicação natural por Amaranthus spinosus (Amaranthaceae) em ovinos no Sudeste do Brasil

Pesquisa Veterinaria Brasileira

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 179-184

  Vargas Peixoto, Paulo ^a   Calvão Brust, Luis Armando ^b   De Farias Brito, Marilene ^a   Do Nascimento França, Ticiana ^c   Melo Da Cunha, Bernardo Rosa ^c   Braziliano De Andrade, Gisele ^a  

^a FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Mestrando Curso Med Vet da UFRRJ

^c ESTÁCIO DE SÁ UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amaranthaceae; Amaranthus spinosus; Pathology; Plant poisononig; Poisonous plants; Sheep

Indexed keywords

PLANT TOXIN;

ABORTION; AMARANTHUS; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPNEA; EPIDEMIC; HALITOSIS; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HISTOLOGY; HYPERKALEMIA; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TUBULE; LIVER NECROSIS; NEPHROSIS; NONHUMAN; RUMINANT STOMACH; SACCHAROMYCES; SHEEP; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH MOTILITY; UREMIA;

AMARANTHACEAE; AMARANTHUS SPINOSUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; SACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 0842312438     PISSN: 0100736X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-736x2003000400007     Document Type: Article

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