Pet Bird Toxicity and Related Environmental Concerns

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Exotic Animal Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 229-259

  Lightfoot, Teresa L ^a   Yeager, Julie M ^a  

^a Florida Veterinary Specialists   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; PESTICIDE; PLANT TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; INTOXICATION; POISON CENTER; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; METALS; PESTICIDES; PLANT POISONING; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; POISONING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 41949136341     PISSN: 10949194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cvex.2008.01.006     Document Type: Review

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