Rattlesnake envenomation in horses: 58 cases (1992-2009)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 238, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 631-635

  Langdon Fielding, C ^a,b   Pusterla, Nicola ^a,b   Magdesian, K Gary ^a,b   Higgins, Jill C ^a,b   Meier, Chloe A ^a,b  

^a Loomis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIVENINS; CROTALUS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; SNAKE BITES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CROTALUS; EQUIDAE;

EID: 79953727256     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.238.5.631     Document Type: Review

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