A 62-year old man was admitted to the emergency station with symptoms of nausea and vomiting. He admitted to having ingested rat poison bait in a suicide attempt. The patient’s medical history indicated an earlier suicide attempt in 2003. No psychiatric treatment had followed. A blood sample of the patient together with a sample of blue rat tralyl has therefore been rated as extremely toxic (T+...

Shrew is an animal belong to small mammals that the existence must be noticed because it has defecation behavior and their droplets often pollutes house. can vectors in spread of infectious diseases human. management not been conducted well. Information about most preferred bait effective rodenticide as a reference controlling widely known. Chemical control using rodenticides enough does take l...

BACKGROUND Accidental poisoning with anticoagulant rodenticides is not uncommon in dogs, but few reports of the elimination kinetics and half-lives in this species have been published. Our objectives were to develop and validate a new method for the quantification of anticoagulant rodenticides in canine blood and faeces using reversed phase ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem ma...

Coumatetralyl (Racumin ) has been known since 1957 as a multiple dose anticoagulant and has been used successfully over many decades. In the seventies and especially the eighties, rats developed an increased resistance to anticoagulants in certain regions of Central Europe. Also, the addition of vitamin K to animal feed (especially to chicken feed) has reduced the efficacy against rats and mice...

b a ckground: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis is a growing health problem in many rural areas of iran. rhombo mys opimus , the great gerbil, is the main animal reservoir of zcl in the northeast and central part of iran. the aim of the current study was to evaluate the rodenticidal effect of coumavec® (a mixture of coumatetralyl 0.5% and etofenprox 0.5%) on r. opimus under laboratory condition....