A case of a brown bear poisoning with carbofuran in Croatia

Ursus

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-90

  Reljić, Slaven ^a   Srebočan, Emil ^a   Huber, Djuro ^a   Kusak, Josip ^a   Šuran, Jelena ^a   Brzica, Stjepan ^b   Cukrov, Slavena ^b   Crnić, Andreja Prevendar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR   (Croatia)

Author keywords

brown bear; carbofuran; Croatia; gas chromatography mass spectrometry; liquid chromatography mass spectrometry; poisoning; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS AUREUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; URSUS ARCTOS; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 84862013670     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2192/URSUS-D-11-00019.1     Document Type: Article

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