Anticoagulant rodenticide intoxication in animals - A review

Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 237-243

  Valchev, Ivan ^a   Binev, Rumen ^a   Yordanova, Veska ^a   Nikolov, Yordan ^a  

^a TRAKIA UNIVERSITY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Animals; Anticoagulant rodenticides; Intoxication

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 48249148320     PISSN: 13000128     EISSN: 13036181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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