Peracute selenium toxicosis followed by sudden death in growing and finishing pigs

Canadian Veterinary Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 515-518

  Nathues, Heiko ^a   Boehne, Inge ^b   Beilage, Thomas Grosse ^b   Gerhauser, Ingo ^a   Hewicker Trautwein, Marion ^a   Wolf, Petra ^a   Kamphues, Josef ^a   Beilage, Elisabeth Grosse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b Vet Clinic   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FATALITY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; SUDDEN DEATH; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; ANALYSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; TOXICITY; VETERINARY;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; DEATH, SUDDEN; FATAL OUTCOME; FOOD CONTAMINATION; SELENIUM; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SUIDAE;

EID: 77953800932     PISSN: 00085286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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