Melamine-containing crystals in the urinary tracts of domestic animals: Sentinel event?

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 341-342

  Lewin Smith, Michael R ^a   Kalasinsky, Victor F ^a   Mullick, Florabel G ^a   Thompson, Michelle E ^a,b  

^a Environmental and Infectious Disease Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM OXALATE; DYE; MELAMINE; OIL RED O; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL FOOD; CRYSTAL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LETTER; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; SENTINEL EVENT; UROLITHIASIS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CALCIUM OXALATE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHINA; CRYSTALLIZATION; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; TRIAZINES; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 62249119950     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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