Intentional poisoning cases of animals with anticholinesterase pesticide-carbofuran in Sri Lanka

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Tennakoon, Sakunthala ^a   Perera, Bandumala ^a   Haturusinghe, Lathika ^a  

^a Government Analyst's Department   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Animals; Birds; Carbofuran; Fatal; HPLC; Intentional poisoning

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE; CARBOFURAN; CHLOROFORM; WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COW; CROW; DOG; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG LIVER LEVEL; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; ELEPHANT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTOXICATION; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION DETECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SRI LANKA; STOMACH; STOMACH CONTENT; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CARBOFURAN; CATTLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CROWS; DOGS; ELEPHANTS; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GIZZARD; INSECTICIDES; LIVER; SRI LANKA;

EID: 67349251544     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.01.033     Document Type: Article

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